Celebration. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide by an unidentified photographer that was taken in Cincinnati, Ohio, in September of 1947. Shown here (R to L) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5823 and another "Centipede" whose road number is not recorded. Both are BP-60's built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as BP-60 passenger engines rated at 3,000 horsepower each, but later regeared and reclassified as 2,250 horsepower BH-50's for freight and helper service only. #5823 was constructed in March of 1947 and retired in September of 1962 after just 15 years of revenue service. |