PRR No. 60 Shifter

The backbone of the Pennsylvania Railroad was it's shifter locomotives. These were the workhorses of the terminals and railroad yards, shifting freight and passenger cars from track to track and assembling trains. Shifter locomotives were small but powerful, they were all guts and no glamor and without them, the railroad couldn't function.
PRR No. 60 was built in December 1913 by the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops in Altoona, PA. Construction number 2746, she was the 27th B6sa Shifter locomotive of a lot of 55 built to supplement the switching fleet on the Pennsy's Lines East. The B6sa had an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement with 56" drivers and weighed in at 177,350 lbs and had a tractive effort of 36,144 lbs. No. 60 worked at Schuylkill, Wilkes-Barre, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Terminal and Susquehanna. She was retired from the roster September 12th 1952 after working almost 40 years! Most of the Penny's fleet of shifter locomotives were scrapped, a few locomotives were sold to smaller railroads, but for the most part they all met their fate by the scrap dealer's torch. Of the 55 B6sa shifters built in 1913, only one survived, No. 60! She was sold to Chemline Corporation along with a coal tender No. 1645 and placed on the company siding in Harmarville, PA. No. 60 was purchased to be used as a stationary steam source for a process at Chemline, but by the time No. 60 was ready to be used, Chemline discontinued the process that they had purchased her for. So there she sat for the next 30 years, rusting away, vandalized and neglected until she was purchased by the Willington & Western Railroad of Delaware. She is now cosmetically restored and on static display, the last of the PRR B6sa Shifters.

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