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Good articlePennsylvania Railroad 460 has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
April 3, 2010Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 1, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Lindbergh raced an airplane from Washington to New York in under three hours, without ever leaving the ground?

History

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Can anyone identify the two "Two rival newsreel companies" and determine which used the airplane and which used the railroad? Given the year, the likely candidates are Pathé News and Hearst Metrotone News. Paramount News was just starting-up its newsreel operations in 1927. Dick Kimball (talk) 13:59, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know the one that shipped by train was International Newsreel, which if I understand correctly, was one of the names of Hearst Metrotone. The second, I believe, was Kinogram. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 17:09, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"...it was loaned to the Long Island Rail Road." This seems unlikely, as "loaned" would seem to imply that no money changed hands. Given how expensive and valuable railroad locomotives must have been, "leased" or "rented" seems vastly more likely. Dick Kimball (talk) 14:05, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The direct quote from the source is: "...it was loaned to the PRR's subsidiary Long Island Rail Road." ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 17:02, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:PRR 460/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Arsenikk (talk) 09:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

A little more in the lead, and you've got yourself another GA. Nice to see someone putting in work not just on classes, but also on individual locomotives; it spices up Wikipedia quite a bit. Arsenikk (talk) 09:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reviewing. Another user brought it up that the redlinks for individual locomotives in an NRHP list should be piped to its class. I made it a personal challenge to see if I can get an, at least, DYK worthy article out of most, if not all, of them. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 23:10, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations with a good article. Arsenikk (talk) 19:58, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]