| Celebration. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by Richard Short that was taken at the 46th Street Enginehouse in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September of 1959. Shown here (R to L) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5813 and another "Centipede" whose road number is not recorded. Both are BH-50'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. #5813 was constructed in May of 1947 and retired in September of 1962 after just 15 years of revenue service. |