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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:Alco RSD12Built As:PRR 8659 (RSD12)
Serial Number:82383Order No:21083
Frame Number:prime mover # 14580Built:1/1958
Notes:PRR Class AS-18AM; reblt 07/78 to CR MT6 1117
Other locos with this serial:  CR 1117(MT6) NS 862(MT6) CR 6859(RSD12) PC 6859(RSD12) PRR 8659(RSD12)
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PRR 8659, AS-18AM, 1965
Title:  PRR 8659, AS-18AM, 1965
Description:  24th Street. Here is an original photo that I took of a Pennsylvania Railroad train in Altoona, Pennsyovania, on 10 January 1965. Shown here (R to L) are PRR engines #8659 and #8666. Both are AS-18AM's built by the American Locomotive Company in 1958 and rated at 1,800 horsepower each. They are pulling an 82-car merchandise freight train down!the Allegheny Mountains to Altoona and points East. The caboose is N-8 #478217. This photo taken just West of the 24th Street Bridge.
Photo Date:  1/10/1965  Upload Date: 9/9/2016 4:07:48 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge,Winter
Locomotives:  PRR 8659(RSD12) PRR 8666(RSD12)
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