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The Pennsylvania Railroad K4 Pacifics are some of the most famous steam locomotives in the world, with 425 of these things built between 1914 and 1928, 75 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, and the remainder in the Pennsy's own Juniata Shops in the old rail town of Altoona, Pennsylvania. They served the Pennsylvania Railroad as late as 1958, and since then two of them are preserved, both being built at Juniata.
1361 is under restoration to working order in Altoona's memorial museum I've had the chance to visit a lot, and 3750, which I stand with for part of this video, at this moment at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasbourg PA.

Long before that, the legendary British Locomotive Engineer or designer Sir Nigel Gresley of the London and Northeastern Railway used the design of K4's as inspiration for his famous A1 Pacifics,
best known for their sole survivor 4472 Flying Scotsman-the undisputed most famous steam locomotive in the world.


The K4's were used as the Pennsy's new premier passenger locomotive from their introduction and were a very common sight on the network, but by the late 1920's it was becoming common to see them doubleheading,
sometimes even tripleheading because modern passenger trains were becoming longer and too heavy for them unassisted.
So the Pennsylvania went about to design a new locomotive powerful enough to handle those longer passenger trains unassisted, to officially replace the K4's as their premier passenger locomotive.
It wasn't a bad idea, replacing them with more powerful passenger locomotives meant saving money on extra crews and locomotives to run an maintain,
but the way they went about this at first in 1929, was nothing short of an embarrassingly stupid failure being subjected to my torturous analysis I do on this show.

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0:00-2:44 Background
2:45-4:17 Options
4:18-6:10 The decision
6:11- 7:51 Problems
7:52-10:02 What PRR could have done
10:03-11:24 Consequences
11:25-13:08 What would have happened differently if they replaced the K4 sooner
13:09-13:54 End of the K5's
13:55-18:39 Outro

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