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    Pennsylvania Railroad K-4s class "Pacific" number 5480. The large 4-6-2 was built at the Juniata Shops of railroad in 1927, and was photographed thundering out of Chicago, Illinois.
     
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    Denver & Rio Grande Western train, engine number 5481 + additional diesel unit, engine type EMD FT
     
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    Long Island Railroad PRR #5482
     
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    Kiwi Rail DX 5483 Locomotive.

    DX 5483 leading the Tranz Alpine passger train out of the Christchurch Railway Station early on a winters morning.
     
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    PRR K4s 5484, Orangeville, Baltimore, August 1946, Note the cross-counter-balanced disc drivers--the only K4s so equipped, according to a couple sources.
     
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    Nene Valley Railway has announced that Polish Tank No.5485 will be joining their home fleet.
    About 5485
    The Polish Tank was last seen at NVR in Summer 2012 when the engine was withdrawn from service for overhaul.
    The locomotive was taken off-site for overhaul, at The Flour Mill Locomotive Repair Workshop located in the Forest of Dean.
     
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    MG_5487 - August 12, 2014

    Especially for Devo <party>
     
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    Elegant Moments EM-5489 Chiffon underwire shelf bra 38 / Black

    NB: Still no steam trains............
     
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    Don't know about that Woops generated a fair bit of steam in the budgie smugglers!!!!
     
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    5490 Phillips Road
    Mundaring WA 6073
     
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    Lego 5491: XXL 2000 bucket of bricks
     
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    The K-4s class, ubiquitous in passenger service on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was a rugged one-size-fits-all machine. (The "s" in a PRR class designation indicates a superheated locomotive.)
    These Pacifics had 80-inch drivers and 27x28-inch cylinders, and carried 205 p.s.i. of boiler pressure.
    They weighed 308,900 pounds and exerted 44,460 pounds of tractive effort.
    However, their grate area was only 70 square feet, and they had 4041 square feet of evaporative heating surface and 943 square feet of superheater surface.
    Hence that they were often double-headed in order to keep heavy trains rolling at speed.
    No. 5492 appears here at the engine terminal in East St. Louis in September 1950.
     
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    PRR K4s 5493 with "Coast to Coast" tender.
     
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    PRR steam locomotive K4 #5495 - Built in Juanita February 1928
     
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    CSX 5496 rolls through the OS at Seymour with Q327-30
    Location: Grand Rapids, MI
     
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