Last gasp of PRR steam

Last gasp of PRR steam

By Angela Cotey | August 16, 2024

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Pennsylvania Railroad B6sb 0-6-0 5244 simmers inside the road’s roundhouse at Camden, N.J., on October 4, 1958. PRR stopped using steam locomotives nearly a year previously, but 5244 hung on until mid-1959 on lease to New Jersey short line Union Transportation Co.
Frank Kozempel photo

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