Pennsy's "Nellie Bly"         
This is most likely PRR train #1077, the "Nellie Bly" which ran from New York to Atlantic City in 2 hrs and 45 min and would have received an engine change here from a GG1 to the K4s. For sure, the train is on the track headed down the Bordentown Branch to Camden (and possibly beyond to AC). K4s #5409 was a 1927 product of Baldwin Locomotive Works. The new pilot and relocated headlight are part of post war modernization that CKF said made it an example of "What a good looking locomotive should not look like
Date: 10/1/1947 Location: Trenton, NJ   Map Show Trenton on a rail map Views: 2377 Collection Of:   Charles Knox Freericks
Locomotives: PRR 5409(4-6-2)    Author:  Charles Knox Freericks
Pennsy's "Nellie Bly"
Picture Categories: This picture is part of album:  1940s and 1950s
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Dave Korhammer General Great shot. The "Bly" actually ran down the Bordentown to "Divide" in Pennsauken, and diverted to the Delaware River RR & Bridge Co.(PRR) route to Haddonfield, where it joined the PRSL to Atlantic City. 6/20/2014 7:35:49 PM

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