The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) N1s was a class of 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" steam locomotives built for the Pennsylvania's Lines West. 60 engines were built between December 1918 and November 1919, and worked heavy mineral freight to and from ports on the Great Lakes until their retirement in the late 1940s. All examples were scrapped by 1950.

The PRR was one of the few American railroads to use this type of firebox. Most steam locomotive had a boiler that was continuously round from the front of the locomotive through and including the firebox.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's N1s was a class of steam locomotive built for Lines West. They were of 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" wheel arrangement , ten driving wheels with a two-wheel leading truck and a two-wheel cast KW-pattern trailing truck under a giant firebox.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CLASS N1s 2-10-2 LOCOMOTIVES. The Class N1s 2-10-2 Locomotive was developed in 1918 by the Fort Wayne Shops of the Lines West region. It was built mainly for one purpose. The hauling of coal and iron ore to and from the lake ports. Their travels found them mainly in this area.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's class N2sa comprised rebuilds to PRR practice of the 130 USRA Heavy Santa Fe steam locomotives the railroad received under the auspices of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized central control of the nation's railroads during World War I.

N1s 35 by Alco-Brooks 1918-19, 25 built new by Baldwin 1919. 30" x 32" cylinders, 62" drivers, 215 psi boiler pressure, Belpaire fireboxes, and Kiesel cast-steel trailing trucks. 7008

PRR N1s and the Brier Hill Plate Mill I recently saw this photo on an ebay listing for a brass locomotive and noticed the building in the background. The caption says the picture was taken in 1919, which would have been one year after the Brier Hill plate mill in Girard, OH was completed.

You are looking at a very important model in the history of Brass Model Trains. This is the Gem Samhongsa PRR N1s. What is special about it? Well, this is the first model imported to the United States that was built by Samhongsa.

The Pennsylvania Railroad's N1s was a class of steam locomotive built for Lines West. They were of 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" wheel arrangement, ten driving wheels with a two-wheel leading truck and a two-wheel cast KW-pattern trailing truck under a giant firebox.

Do you have any PRR diagrams that are not on this site? If so please e-mail me so we can arrange to scan and add them to the site! Go to the PRR freight car index!