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<blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 846542" data-attributes="member: 10543">From September 2022 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg, the smokebox of Pennsylvania RR 460, a Class E6s 4-4-2 Atlantic, built in Altoona, PA 1914.&nbsp; She was a speedster, famous for racing an aircraft to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" target="_blank">New York City</a> carrying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreel" target="_blank">newsreel</a> film of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" target="_blank">Charles Lindbergh</a>'s return to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank">U.S. </a>after his transatlantic flight in 1927. The plane arrived first, but the film aboard the train was processed en-route and arrived in theatres hours before the film in the airplane was processed. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> [D5100][ATTACH=full]430055[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sandpatch, post: 846542, member: 10543"] From September 2022 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg, the smokebox of Pennsylvania RR 460, a Class E6s 4-4-2 Atlantic, built in Altoona, PA 1914. She was a speedster, famous for racing an aircraft to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City']New York City[/URL] carrying [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreel']newsreel[/URL] film of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh']Charles Lindbergh[/URL]'s return to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States']U.S. [/URL]after his transatlantic flight in 1927. The plane arrived first, but the film aboard the train was processed en-route and arrived in theatres hours before the film in the airplane was processed. :) [D5100] [ATTACH type="full" alt="2022-09-23 036 Strasburg PA - for upload.jpg"]430055[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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