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Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "Union Station tracks." Receding in a haze of soot, steam and mildew. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
I have always been exposed to trains. Born in Brooklyn, under the EL, raised in Queens, home of the LIRR, and now living a mile from the GE Alco plant, where more coal and diesel locos were built than anywhere else. Pictures cannot convey the awe experience savored at the side of one of the industrial age's most perfect mobile power houses'.
It's a Pennsylvania Railroad class E6s 4-4-2 Atlantic.
5218 or 5318 - On whose roster? Anyone?
looks very archaic for an engine running in 1921. It still has a box headlight and tailrods - which means its not yet superheated, so its an E6, not an E6s
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