Some 425 K4s engines were built (350 by PRR’s Juniata Shops in Altoona and 75 by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia) between 19. “The K4 is the embodiment of the people of Altoona,” said Ward, the FMW president. An honorary crew member is David Seidel, a founding member of the museum in the 1970s. He and Moorman singled out volunteers Mike Reindl (lead restoration consultant), Andy Charlesworth, Brandon Sliko, and Joe Harella as torchbearers in the ongoing work on No. “What’s got us to this point is volunteers,” DeFrancesco said, adding, “We are about the people of railroading,” a theme woven through exhibits in the museum’s four-story Master Mechanics Building. The locomotive’s number plate and bell on display at Thursday’s event. A shined-up Mountain View was on display at the ceremony. The consist might include the museum’s 1949 Pullman-Standard buffet-lounge-observation car Mountain View, which once brought up the rear of PRR’s flagship Broadway Limited. It also could operate on steam-friendly short lines. 1361 traveling around the state for public appearances, along with a train of period PRR coaches.
Leading fundraising efforts will be Moorman and board secretary Bennett Levin of Washington Crossing, Pa., a longtime preservationist, PRR diesel locomotive and passenger-car owner, and museum supporter.ĭeFrancesco, who began at the museum 16 years ago as a teenage volunteer, said the campaign seeks to reinvigorate the museum by creating a living-history educational tool and a community outreach arm. The FRA’s blessing was necessary for the restoration to proceed. Ward said FRA has issued a “letter of concurrence,” indicating that the agency condones FMW’s engineering conclusions and repair recommendations. The inspection included engineering calculations, 3D computer-aided-design modeling, non-destructive spectrometer and radiograph work, ultrasonic thickness testing, rivet material review, visual inspections, and consultation with the Federal Railroad Administration, which certifies pressure vessels for railroad use. However, the squared-off Belpaire firebox - common to most PRR steam locomotives but unusual in American practice - will need to be replaced. Previous assessments that it would need a new boiler turned out to be incorrect (some repairs will be required), as the boiler courses are basically sound.
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1361, which included a full review of records of earlier work. In 2019, the museum contracted with FMW to conduct a six-month inspection of No. The scope of restoration work will cover repairs to the frame, appliances, spring rigging and brake rigging, drivers, and running gear of the engine, built by PRR in its Juniata Shops in 1918. 1361’s frame, running gear, cab, and boiler, occupy the museum’s roundhouse facility. With him were Joseph DeFrancesco, executive director of the museum, and a host of engineering experts led by FMW President Davidson Ward. Wick Moorman, chairman of a newly reconstituted museum board and retired CEO of Norfolk Southern and Amtrak. 1361 will be restored to operating condition under a $2.6 million campaign announced Thursday by the Railroaders Memorial Museum and its partner, engineering consulting firm FMW Solutions LLC. Pennsylvania Railroad Class K4s 4-6-2 steam passenger locomotive No. At left is Joseph DeFrancesco, executive director of the museum, and at right is Davidson Ward, president of FMW Solutions, LLC, the engineering consulting firm that is overseeing the work.
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