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PRR Centipede at 14th St ready track |
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If the "Baby Face" is really the 5821 (Hard to read the number) it is also pictured in Douglas and Weiglin's Pennsy Diesel Years 1942-1968 at P. 57. It had been downrated to 5000 HP and repainted into freight colors |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1951 Upload Date: 1/25/2011 4:50:26 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Louis, MO |
| Author: |
Lew Schneider |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5821(DR12-8-1500/2) |
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4468 Comments: 4 |
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PRR 5891, EP-22, 1959 |
| Description: |
Volkmer. Here is an image of a photo (converted to B&W) by William D. Volkmer that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 18 April 1959. Parked in the Erecting & Machine Shop storage yard is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5891, an EP-22 built by GM-EMD in April of 1950 and rated at 2,250 horsepower. To its immediate left is Baldwin-built "Centipede" #5821. In the foreground is PRR gondola #244227. William E. Burket Collection. |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1959 Upload Date: 7/17/2022 8:30:19 PM |
| Location: |
Altoona(Juniata), PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5891(E8A) PRR 5821(DR12-8-1500/2) |
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258 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
PRR 5821, BH-50, 1959 |
| Description: |
Volkmer. Here is an original 35mm color slide by William D. Volkmer that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 30 August 1959. Shown here (L to R) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5821 and another unit whose road number is not recorded. Both are BH-50's built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as BP-60's rated at 3,000 horsepower each, but later regeared and classified as BH-50's rated at 2,500 horsepower each. #5821 was constructed in February of 1948 and retired in September of 1962 after just 14 years of revenue service. |
| Photo Date: |
8/30/1959 Upload Date: 6/4/2023 12:20:52 AM |
| Location: |
Altoona(Juniata), PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5821(DR12-8-1500/2) |
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177 Comments: 0 |
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