PRR Calendar Art..a Q2 in eastern PA?

[rjake4454]

I found this searching through old pennsy calendar art online, and I came across this. The Q2 is apparently depicted as being in Marysville, PA in 1947? I was under the impression that the Q2's never even entered PA due to the length of the duplex and the trouble it had negotiating the sharper curves in PA. Beautiful pic, but why was it made like this? Anyone care to clear this up?

 

Here is another pic I found of the Q2 running in PA.

[tomikawaTT]

Where were the Q2s built?  Both Altoona and Eddystone (BLW) are in Pennsylvania.  I doubt that the PRR would run a big, powerful locomotive light when there was traffic to be moved.

Chuck

[K4sPRR]

Artistic interpretation.  In 1947, after two years of testing an E7 set the PRR finally decided on purchasing more of these diesels for passenger service.  This new locomotive and the display of the new modern type steam locomotive was the theme by Grif Teller for the calendar issued that year.  As you stated the Q's were sent west, positioned mainly in Crestline OH to run the Ft. Wayne Line.  The barrel seam of the boilers weakened and starting leaking requiring some of the Q's back to Altoona for some rethinking and repairs, staying close to home during this time as the repairs were tested.  Others were repaired in Canton and Columbus OH.  Didn't matter much as the fuel hungry beasts were out of service by 1954.  The majority gone in 1949 just a few years after construction. 

Marysville is east of Altoona near Harrisburg.  The curvature and grades not as intense as the mountain area west of Altoona.  Crew visibility around the huge 106" boiler on curves was another problem.  After construction the Q was a rare sight in and around Altoona so in this instance it was the artist showing off the new wares of a power optomistic railroad in a typical PRR setting.   

[rjake4454]

Thanks for the info. I guess it had to be a little artistic imagination, just look at this picture, an S1 in Pennsylvania, just west of Pittsburgh!