| Celebration. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide that was taken near Millerstown, Pennsylvania, c. 1956. Shown here (L to R) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5818 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. #5818 was constructed in January of 1948 and retired in April of 1962 after just 14 years of revenue service. In this context, they're about to pass under the Juniata River Bridge with a mixed-cargo freight train out of Altoona bound for Enola. The photographer's name and the exact date are not recorded. |