I've just entered this conversation late, but on Godfather's website, there is a photo (one of many) of hundreds of Pennsy steamers sitting empty, cold, partially cannibalized and partially scrapped, in Altoona, during the mid-fifties. On the side of the yard, amongst a string of locomotives, remains a single T1. For whatever reason, that one locomotive was put aside, but ultimately went to scrap. Was there a reason, or was it just fate that placed her there? Nobody will ever know, and today it's pointless to speculate. I have been told that three J1's where kept until 1960, having not been moved or tended to since fires were dropped in 1957. One was selected as a keeper, but derailed three times while being moved in the yard. Finally, out of frustration or anger, she was cut up on the spot. Apparently the story holds some water, but I've never heard it other than one of those apocryphal tales of the close of steam.