May 9, 2024 - Moving Engine #60

On May 8th, 2024, former Pennsylvania Railroad steam engine #60, built in 1913, was moved from a long-term storage location in Yorklyn, DE, to the Wilmington and Western Railroad shops. There it will be restored, prior to being moved to the railroad exhibit in Lewes, DE. This video documents some of the highlights of the move.

[@hmsjr0154]

Any day an old stream engine is restored even cosmetic is a great day!

[@barbnd1512]

Wishing the board best of luck with the old enginer. They certainly have a beauty about them.

[@elleryparsons2433]

I Love to See That Engine being Saved.👍👍.

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

I'm glad seeing it 'loved' with cosmetic restoration and preserved in a museum rather than fall to more neglect, scrapping, or vandalism. 👍😁❤🙏

[@STHSIndustries2K6]

Great to see PRR #60 getting some love after a while. Thanks Wilmington and Western for helping to restore #60.

[@nightlightabcd]

It's not actually a restoration, but a cosmetic restoration for static display. But a cosmetic restoration is good.

[@mratsfrailfan1894]

@@nightlightabcdthat’s still a restoration lmao…

[@Thatonerandomguy1331]

@@mratsfrailfan1894but it isnt an operational restoration 🤯

[@mratsfrailfan1894]

@@Thatonerandomguy1331 and enlighten me, where did he say anything about a operational restoration? 🤔

[@Thatonerandomguy1331]

@@mratsfrailfan1894 enlighten me aswell, why did u make that comment in the first place when u know both are completely different things 🤔

[@w.rustylane5650]

I love to see old engines restored even if not to running condition. It's a shame to see old steamers sitting in fields rotting away. The #60 appears to be an 0-6-0 switcher but the tender doesn't match. I think they pulled a slope back tender. At least the engine will be preserved. Cheers from eastern TN

[@markmichel6802]

I think thst might be an H class 2-8-0 tender. The B6 did have slope backs for better visibility when backing

[@tracynation2820]

Super. That is the biggest tender that I have ever seen on an 0-6-0 steam switcher. If you fixed it up, it could pull a dinner train without running out of fuel or water. 💙 T.E.N.

[@dff19707]

This is great! I live in Hockessin, Delaware, and my in-laws live in Lewes. Glad to see this old steamer finally getting some love, and I’ll hopefully be able to visit it again someday in Lewes. I suppose you’ll have to truck it in with the tracks to Lewes ripped out. What’s the timeline for restoration and where will its final home in Lewes be located?

[@RandyVoith]

We hope to move the restored engine to the Railroad Exhibit Site in Lewes in late 2025 or early 2026.

[@NorthernOhioRailroadAction]

Excellent video really enjoyed it keep up the great work thanks again and have a wonderful day

[@CarsonColoradoRailway]

looking forward to seeing here beautified.

[@davekc3am518]

I have seen it sitting there just wasting away. Had I known this was happening I would have been there to watch.

[@BELCAN57]

One hundred and eleven years!

[@jockellis]

Beautiful switcher. Looks like it had a Belpaire boiler at one time.

[@660Oliver]

No, it was built with a radial stay firebox.

[@WA1LBK]

VERY unusual not to have a Belpaire firebox for a PRR steam loco! (Other than the J1 class 2-10-4’s). I’m guessing that she was a USRA design 0-6-0? As someone else commented, huge tenser for an 0-6-0. Gladiator to see that she’s getting at least cosmetic restoration; maybe in the future, full restoration to steam again? 😊

[@SteveBrosig-dh3xz]

I love to see old work horse’s getting a second chance, God only knows how I feel about this

[@user-gk8gg1zt7l]

Excellent shot. Like me

[@jacksalvin364]

Cosmetic Restoration begins on #60

[@joellafargue9882]

The only disappointment here was that we didn't really get to see the ENTIRE train, but I guess your main focus was on the old engine.

[@kennethhanks6712]

Interesting loco since it does not have a Belpaire firebox am wondering if it was originally not a PRR engine. Also tender looks much larger than what normal for that size 0-6-0 so maybe it was off another engine. Altogether I'd say #60 may have surprises in her history.

[@PowerTrain611]

Most, but not all, Pennsy engines had the Belpaire firebox design. The B6sa class did not, and 60 falls into that class. The other B6 at the RR museum of PA, #1670, is a B6sb, and it does have the Belpaire firebox. #643, the only operational PRR steamer (as of this writing), also lacks the firebox we know the Pennsy so well for.

[@kennethhanks6712]

Thanks for the info. Any preserved steamer is notable but 60 appears to have her own particulars to make her "unique". Look forward to her being restored and on display.

[@the_mississippian_railfan]

It did have one they removed it for some reason

[@lawnmowerdude]

To my knowledge the tender is from a Pennsylvania consolidated engine.

[@660Oliver]

@@the_mississippian_railfan It was swapped out prior to being sold by the PRR.

[@Fedora5957]

Wow, Great job and move fellows. Congratulations. I hope you all decide to go for broke and rebuilt it. Many states and groups now are restoring steamers especially ones that once languish and were neglected in public parks. Also several steamers have of large size are being builr from scratch as well one here in the USA, the T-1 Pennsy of a 4-4-4-4 wheel configuration. It is hard for me to see your Pennsy steamer as an 0-6-0 switcher. Was it formerly a mogul or a prairie?

[@poekaw2662]

This is train been 2024, like a big train to get an old

[@k4productions]

Any idea how the 4-4-0 is doing? She was my childhood favorite

[@maxwellwalcher6420]

is she gonna be restored and steamed.

[@garryferrington811]

At least it won't just be sitting and rotting.

[@nightlightabcd]

Was that originally a 2-6-2 or a 0-6-2? Seems like it might have some wheels mission. I think I saw them on the flat bed.

[@dominicf8039]

Built as an 0-6-0

[@RandyVoith]

Th engine was built as an 0-6-0. According to our research, the tender is from a PRR Atlantic, #1645, and was paired with #60 in the late '40's.

[@44ssspoptop]

Amen

[@dgeist4609]

What kind of prep work goes into moving a rusty locomotive? I'd imagine there's more to it than oiling the axle bearings.

[@jerrygoldman4484]

Right. The last time I saw it there was so much rust I was afraid it would fall apart just by me looking at it.

[@lewesjunctionrailroadbridg1417]

There was certainly a lot of lubrication applied before we started to move it. The whole area smelled like oil for a bit. There were also temporary hoses attached to the locomotive so that air pressure could "bypass" it and go to the next car in line. Two WWRR staff sat on the flat car in front of the locomotive, one on each side, and watched carefully during the move to make sure nothing went awry. Several times during the move, the train was stopped so someone could go and take the temperature of the wheel bearings to make sure they weren't getting too hot.

[@PowerTrain611]

Consider too, the fact that the crossheads are disconnected from the main rods to avoid damage to the piston and cylinder lining due to lack of lubrication.

[@railroad9000]

Pretty large tender for an 0-6-0?

[@lawnmowerdude]

Yeah it originally was a tender for an Atlantic but when the prr was scraping the 4-4-2s they put a several Atlantic tenders behind some 0-6-0 to increase the water capacity for 6000 gallons to 7000.

[@railroad9000]

@@lawnmowerdude Thanks.

[@SteamCrane]

Need more information. That tender is way to big for an 0-6-0, and what looks like another tender frame behind it. Behind the covered hopper is another flat car with some trucks and whatever that is not shown. Do you have any outtakes that include this?

[@lawnmowerdude]

The tender behind 60 was from an Atlantic type steam engine. When the PRR was scrapping the Atlantics the PRR saved a few of the tenders and put them behind a few 0-6-0s to increase their water capacity from 6000gals to 7000gals. The flat car behind 60 was an auxiliary tender made from a traditional tender that came from the C&O that was used by some 0-8-0s. It then had its water tank removed to be used as a flat car. The covered hopper car is a ballast car that was converted from a covered hopper car. The trucks on the last flat car that use to be a wooden box car are just some old B&O trucks that get used around the yard and needed a place to go.

[@SteamCrane]

@@lawnmowerdude Thanks! The big tender reminds me of the NKP(?) switchers that were delivered with big road tenders, to be swapped with some older too-small road tenders on engines like mikes.

[@tde720]

When they are done with the cosmetics will they keep it on its own wheels all the way down to Georgetown before trucking it to Lewes or would it be easier to just truck it all the way?

[@RandyVoith]

We plan to truck it from the restoration site to the Exhibit Site in Lewes.

[@terencewilliammckenna6121]

Wow

[@DouggieFresh50]

Is per #60 getting restored

[@user-tj7we4cc7j]

Интересно - паровозу перед рейсом смазали подшипники?

[@lawnmowerdude]

Yes, much work was done to lubricate all the bearing before the move.