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The K4 Pacific locomotive was the flagship of the Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger fleet. The K4 was first developed in 1914 and continued to evolve until the mid 1950's. The K4 turned out to be one of the most successful steam locomotives ever built. PRR No. 1188 was built at the Juniata Shops in Altoona, PA in 1918, she was unique among the K4 locomotives due to her boiler top streamlining. Because of this streamlining, 1188 was called the "Skyline".Today, only 2 K4 Pacific locomotives of the 425 built still exist, No. 1361 and No. 3750, both are preserved and share the title of the official steam locomotive of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Yes. I don't remember reading anything about it, but the Pennsy was always experimenting with things.
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I'm proud to live in the state of The Standard Railroad of The World, and I'm proud to be an American Railroader!
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Me too! I'm proud to be the descendant of a Pennsy engineer, Tom Henderson, my great grandfather was an engineer out of Derry PA. Even after he retired from working the locomotives, he worked as an engineer operating a stationary boiler for the Pennsy at Derry. Do you work for NS?
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I'm afraid not. I hope to work though for the Strasburg Rail Road.
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wow thats is some awesome detail work you have their
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Thanks! I'm a nut for details.
-YD
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yeehaw!
i like the markers on the pilot beam. arent they usually on the smokebox with k4's?
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Thanks! They moved them up in the later years when they did the so-called beauty treatment on the K-4s and M-1s, but in most cases they left them on the pilot beam too.
-YD
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1361, is she still running?
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She is being restored the last I heard at Steamtown in Scranton, PA.
-YD
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Here's some news on 1361 from the Altoona Mirror Newspaper: [link] The project isn't dead, but it doesn't look good.
-YD
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man this sucks. 1361 looks like shes never gonna get restored. i say, sneak into the shop, steal the parts and restore it ourselves
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It may not all be bad news, it may just take longer before we see her under steam again. Maybe Norfolk Southern will get involved, they have deep pockets.
-YD
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It's safe and sound in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
-YD
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This is first class all the way. excellent perspective and composition, not to mention texturing and colour. Splendid.
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Welcome, you are, my friend, and for some excellent art, I thank you.
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I'm glad you like my art! I was checking out your web sites, cool stuff! I don't know much about pipe organs, but when I was a kid going to art school at the Carnegie Museum in Oakland, they had one in the Carnegie Music Hall where we took our lesson. My dad's friend has a B3 organ. My dad is a drummer, but he likes to play around on the keyboard. I know he had an electric organ years ago, but he traded it in for a keyboard.
Those Organs on your web site are works of art.
-YD
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You are most welcome, Kind Sir. Trains and pipe organs are a lot alike. One is driven by steam and the other by air. But both contraptions are under pressure! Oh, and they both have really loud post horns that are eight feet long and blown kind of hard.
I love the Hammond B3. Played many, but owned a more modest and compact M-3 plugged into a 925 Roadable two piece Leslie. This speaker when stacked was as big as a refridgerator, and it had a straight channel and two rotors, bass and treble.
The straight and treble rotor were in the top cabinet which sat on the bass rotor box below. Inside that box were the rotor, amps, crossovers, motor control relays, etc. The rotor speakers were heavy duty custom JBLs that would part your hair at fifty feet. They were driven by two fifty watt amps. A third fifty watt amp drove four Jenson 6x9s each having a wheezer cone and a metal dust cape for really nice high end. You could hear that 1' drawbar at the top o' the 'board, yuppers.
Many electronic organs are a blast to play. So are the real classical pipe organs like the one in Carnegie Hall. But the true King of Instruments is a Theatre Pipe Organ sitting in a movie palace. Once you have played one of those, even a small one, you never forget that sound, like a symphony orchestra and then some. Nothing rules like a Mighty WurliTzer. They are amazing machines indeed, just like the majestic steam locomotives that brought the people out to see them and hear them play back in the 1920's.
Now, those awesome machines are all but gone, with only a few hundred remaining out of over ten thousand that were built during that time. Still fewer of the ones that remain are original and installed in the historic buildings were they played for the first time. Most of the TPO's of today are built up from smaller organs. Pipe cannibalism, if I may. Erm. Yes. Anyway, a few small organs still remain, but these are in some remote or out of the way places.
Most TPO's are museum pieces today. Many want to play them. Few get to do so. Kind of like wanting to be an astronaut. And when one finally gets the opportunity to take the bench, it is an adrenaline rush beyond description. The building literally shakes from the power of the beast. And this is before you play any notes. All you have to do to get the house rockin' is turn on all the trems. 
I am glad that you enjoy my organ pictures. Thanks for taking the time to look. Come back again when we post something new or just come back to poke around some more. There are hidden links to other places everywhere on my many deviantART pages. God bless, my friend...
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nice way you drew the wheels....AND THE WHOL THING
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nice way you drew the wheels....AND THE WHOL THING
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WOW! 
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Thanks! I had very good reference to work from. Check out some of the other Pennsy illustrations in my gallery.
-YD
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Nice portrait of a Pensy classic! I like the illustrative style.
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Thanks! The K4 Pacific is my favorite locomotive, but I'm partial to anything from Pennsylvania.
-YD
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this is cool but i think you need more contrast cuz alot of it blends together
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Thanks Shane. I think a lot of it has to do with how I see things on that monitor at home. Everything looks dark and I guess I tend to over compensate.
-YD
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Man, you really have this style down.. quite the inspiration
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Thanks! Ahh the T-1, my favorite locomotive. I've done a few illustrations of the T-1. The prototype was my favorite, but the later models were cool too. Really any Pennsy streamline is cool with me.
-YD
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Excellent Work Mr. Henderson! one of the most beautiful things I see in your Art is how you keep up your trademark colors and those beautiful backgrounds, even in this piece, you have not avoided the red coach and it really adds up to the beauty.
Even more than your Art, your kindness is your prime feature which keeps me attached to you. I will always remember your kind eye to me, If I ever became a notable artist, I will tell people who is my mentor.
You know I feel very excited while seeing your train art, your trains are what made me a passenger of them! In my dreams I sometimes become an engineer or a fireman too.
Here is a [link] picture that is stock for use, I really like it, maybe you find it of good use, its was a Daily Deviation for today, the 16th January.
English has few words for respect compared to other languages, or perhaps I don't know to use it effectively, I am sorry if I said anything at anytime that you feel is not good, I can see there is already sufficient distance between America and Pakistan and it atleast should not find its way to hearts.
- Ahmed Nayyer
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Thanks Ahmed! I appreciate that. It's my pleasure to try to help other artists that I come in contact with either in person or on the web. I've been very fortunate in my life to have been given good advice as well as good instructions from some very talented and giving artists. In that spirit, I always try to pay it forward by trying to help and encourage others in any way I can. It's a much a better feeling to be constructive and inspire others than to be negative and critical.
There are great difference in our people and our cultures, but there are also many things in common. You and I have many things in common, our art, our love of cars, our love of trains... I think when we can focus on our common denominators, our difference will always seem insignificant.
-Don
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