Pennsylvania No. 643

PRR No. 643 is a black 0-6-0 tender steam locomotive built in 1901.
==History==
Pennsylvania Railroad No. 643 is a PRR B4ahttps://wgrailroad.wordpress.com/steam-locomotive-643/https://jdhsmith.math.iastate.edu/term/slusprr.htm class 0-6-0 Switcher-type steam locomotive. It was built by the PRR’s Juniata shopshttps://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/ex-pennsy-steamer-toils-in-obscurity/ in Altoona, Pennsylvania (PA) in June,https://www.wghsea.org/steam-engine-643https://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=1009 1901 as builder's number 2184https://www.steamlocomotive.com/survivors/search.php?builder=PRR+%28Altoona%29&status=operational&country=USA to be used for shunting operations. However at the time of No. 643's construction it was almost immediately surplus to requirements, with the B6http://jbritton.pennsyrr.com/index.php/tpm/116-steam-locomotive-class-model-cross-reference class soon replacing most B4 classes in the next decade.
No. 643 was withdrawn from the PRR and was sold to the Central Iron and Steel company of Harrisburg, PA in 1917.https://www.steamlocomotive.info/nlocoowner.cfm?which=1009 It was renumbered No. 5https://rrmuseumpa.andornot.com/permalink/archives192122 and worked for the company for the next four decades, including when the company became Phoenix Iron and Steel in 1955 and when it was renamed again to Phoenix Steel corporation in 1958.
The locomotive received a new boiler in 1945 from the H. K. Porter company. PRR No. 643 was sold to Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association (WGHSEA) in 1961 after Phoenix Iron and Steel ceased operation in 1959 (having sat unused in an abandoned mill building). Since then, it has been owned and operated by the Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association, based at the Williams Grove Railroad (WGRR). No. 643 underwent a minor rebuild from 2001 to 2006.
==Trivia==
*No. 643 is the only PRR steam locomotive that’s still in operation today.
*At some point during No. 643's career in the steel industry as No. 5, it gained a larger tender.
==Gallery==
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