| ARB. Here is an image of the second of two successive photos by David R. Sweetland that were taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in July of 1959. Prominent here are several unidentified Pennsylvania Railroad "Decapod" steam locomotives about to pass under Juniata's 8th Street on their way to be recycled. This was one of at least three such "Graveyard Trains." The final one merited a photo in the "Altoona Mirror" of 28 August 1959, captioned as follows: "A solid train of 15 old Pennsylvania Railroad [I-1SA (2-10-0) "Decapod"] steam locomotives [are shown here] moving around the famed Horseshoe Curve near Altoona. The engines, representing 3,211 tons of metal, were en route from Altoona to a Midwestern steel mill to be cut up for scrap. The Pennsy, which once owned as many as 7,630 steam engines, became completely dieselized or electrified more than two years ago." |