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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:EMD GP9Built As:PRR 7221 (GP9)
Serial Number:24253Order No:5570
Frame Number:5570-A37Built:11/1957
Notes:PRR Class EFS-17M.
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 7221(GP9)
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PRR 7143, EFS-17M, 1962
Title:  PRR 7143, EFS-17M, 1962
Description:  12th Street. Kere is an original photo that I took of Pennsylvania Railroad trains in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 24 September 1962. Shown here are PRR engines #7143, #7219, #7221, and #7116. All ard EFS-17M's built by EMD in 1957 and rated at 1,750 horsepower each. They are pulling a mixed-cargo freight train under the 12th Street Bridge, on their way up the Allegheny Mountains pia the Horseshoe Curve toÞGallitzin and points West. Photo taken from an unidentified caboose that was part of a static display of PRR locomotives and rolling stock at the Passenger Station.
Photo Date:  9/24/1962  Upload Date: 10/12/2016 6:45:04 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  PRR 7143(GP9) PRR 7219(GP9) PRR 7221(GP9) PRR 7116(GP9)
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