PRR 5817, BH-50, c. 1960

DF-Prints. Here is a print by an unidentified photographer that was taken near Perdix, Pennsylvania, c. 1960. Shown here (R to L) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5817 and another "Centipede" whose road number is not recorded. Both are BH-50's built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as BP-60 passenger engines rated at 3,000 horsepower each, but later regeared and reclassified as 2,250 horsepower BH-50's for freight and helper service only. #5817 was built in December of 1947 and retired in September of 1962 after just 15 years of revenue service. In this context, they're pulling a mixed-cargo freight train out of Altoona to the Enola Yards. Brad Mann Collection.