| Here is the second of four original photos by Douglas C. Jones that were taken just East of the 17th Street Bridge in the Juniata section of Altoona, Pennsylvania, c. 1953. Prominent here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #1071, an I-1SA (2-10-0) "Decapod" built in Juniata as an I-1S during November of 1918, rebuilt as an I-1SA in June of 1941, and retired in August of 1959 after 41 years of revenue service. In this context, it's shifting a string of high-and-wide special loads. In the left background is the southwestern face of the 50-stall East Altoona Roundhouse. In the center is the smokestack marking the location of the Roundhouse Power Plant. At the far right are the Eastbound Locomotive Ready Tracks. And in the foreground is the creek bed for the northern branch of the Juniata River, flowing left to right, on its way to Tyrone. |