Summary
Scott Cessna leans over, his fingers dancing around a coal-black model of a locomotive and its tender, as he explains just what has happened to No. 1361.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Pacific Class K4 steam locomotive is scheduled to come home to Altoona in the summer, 11 years and $1.8 million after the workhorse symbol of the PRR passenger service was transported to Steamtown, in Scranton, for repair.See the full content of this document
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Altoona Awaits Refurbished Steam Locomotive
"The whole front end, the smoke box, is gone," Cessna says. "The smokestack is brand new. The front wheels, the lead truck wheels, are brand new; the axles are brand new. The entire firebox and wrapper sheet four feet up both sides of the boiler are brand new.
"The whole back end, both the inside sheet and the outside sheet, where the butterfly doors are that you shovel the coal .. that whole back end is brand new."This locomotive was a basket case. A basket case."Five years ago, so was its owner, the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona. Both, apparently, are poised for a remarkable return.Dean McKnight, a retired ...See the full content of this document
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