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John R Crosby, author, Penn Central engineer

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Posted by zugmann on Saturday, August 29, 2020 1:02 PM

Overmod
I was not quite as enamored of Mr. Crosby after he attempted to say that PRR T1s had 120mph speedometers as a key detail in one of his stories ...

I mean, teh GP38s I use have 80mph speedometers.  Don't know if they could hit that if you pushed one over a cliff?

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by samfp1943 on Saturday, August 29, 2020 12:59 PM

OK!  It is Saturday, and it's raining here....Time to kick this can of worms down the railfan road!

"...How Fast was the Pennsy T-1....?   "  It was so fast... it would suck the trash out of the ditch on BOTH sides of the railroad..."  MischiefMischiefMischief  Bang Head

To start the ball rolling; a couple of You Tube videos:

"PRR T-1 Duplex Top Speed 140mph (Volume 1)"

@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6z_CBnzE7E  

PRR T-1 (volumn 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6z_CBnzE7E

Then there was the PRR S-1  9127 mph to 156mph)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-0-Ex6LH2g

and if you want to investigate further.. There are plenty of other railroad's speedsters to check out.  

The you can check out the 10 Fastest Steam Locomotives [Not my list, but intersting!]  Enjoy! Cool

@   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5O-g5r3YnY

 

 

 

 


 

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Posted by Overmod on Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:37 AM

I was not quite as enamored of Mr. Crosby after he attempted to say that PRR T1s had 120mph speedometers as a key detail in one of his stories ...

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Posted by matthewsaggie on Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:27 AM

Please share your original article with us.

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John R Crosby, author, Penn Central engineer
Posted by 7fdl on Friday, August 28, 2020 5:46 PM

Hi fellow Train Nuts

I recently discovered a wonderful article by the late John R Crosby, that described his adventures as a Penn Central engineer on the Fort Wayne Divison in the early 1970s.

Crosby is a fun writer, and as a former Chicagoan, I got a chuckle or two about PC trains back in that era getting Police escort when exiting some South Side yards and the train crew doing battle with the local bandits only armed with a wrench or lighted railroad flare!

I believe there might be another companion article from the old July 1972 Trains that has Crosby writing about being a road foreman on some coal trains with SD45 power.

Would some kind souls out there snap a few iPhone pictures of that 1972 article if you have it?  It's probably not very long, I would be in your debt.

thanks, and stay safe at Home reading some nice train stories!

Jonas

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