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Viewing Album:  PRR: Shafer ~> "Power To Burn" ~ 1976
 
By:Thomas C. Ayers
Dates:8/29/1976 - 8/29/1976
Album Info:Here are both covers and the complete contents of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders." It was edited by Mr. James M. Shafer and published during 1976. This particular copy was given to me by my friend Betty Burkett of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on 29 August 1976. "Dedicated to the railroad workers of the [Pennsylvania Railroad's] Middle Division, who helped create the greatest railroad system in the world and paved the way for successors who opened up the West in this United States."
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"Power To Burn," Page 89, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Page 89, 1976
Description:  Here is page 89 of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Photo Caption: "Millholland's 'Gunboat.' Richard Norris & Co. built it in 1866, PRR No. 14, 4-6-0."
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/13/2019 8:24:32 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  PRR GUNBOAT(4-6-0) PRR 14(4-6-0)
Views:  697   Comments: 0
"Power To Burn," Page 92, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Page 92, 1976
Description:  Here is page 92 of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Revised Caption: "Altoona Machine Shops in [May], 1869, produced the first class 'E,' PRR No. 218, 4-6-0."
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2019 9:36:33 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 218(2-6-0)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
"Power To Burn," Page 93, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Page 93, 1976
Description:  Here is page 93 of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Top Photo Caption: "Altoona Machine Shops, in September 1873, listed class G (D-5) PRR No. 930, 4-4-0, as a special engine." Bottom Photo Caption: "Altoona Machine Shops, in 1881, built this class I (H-1) PRR No. 433, 2-8-0."
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2019 3:44:05 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 930(4-4-0) PRR 433(2-8-0)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
"Power To Burn," Page 94, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Page 94, 1976
Description:  Here is page 94 of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Top Photo Caption: "Built in Altoona in 1875 as a 2-6-0, this locomotive was rebuilt in Altoona in 1882 as a switcher, PRR 262, 0-6-0." Bottom Photo Caption: "Baldwin in April of 1861 built PRR 212, 2-4-0, a light passenger engine."
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2019 3:46:18 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 252(0-6-0) PRR 212(2-4-0)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
"Power To Burn," Page 95, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Page 95, 1976
Description:  Here is page 95 of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Photo Caption: "Altoona Machine Shops, in 1882, built this Forney 'double-ender.' PRR No. 4, 2-4-6T, the only one ever built. It was scrapped in 1892."
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2019 3:47:57 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 4(UNKNOWN)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
"Power To Burn," Page 96, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Page 96, 1976
Description:  Here is page 96 of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Partial Caption: "AMTRAK's National Limited rounds the Horseshoe Curve, eastbound on it daily trip to New York." #589 is an SDP40-F built by GM-EMD in May of 1974.
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2019 3:51:26 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 593(SDP40F)
Views:  186   Comments: 1
"Power To Burn," Inside Back Cover, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Inside Back Cover, 1976
Description:  Here is the inside of the back cover of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Partial Caption: "This is the last steam engine, a J-1, leaving the Juniata Shops for a scrapyard." No bell and no builder's badge, no headlight and no keystone. "Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2019 3:53:08 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives: 
Views:  111   Comments: 1
"Power To Burn," Back Cover, 1976
Title:  "Power To Burn," Back Cover, 1976
Description:  Here is the back cover of a 96-page monograph entitled "Power To Burn: Smoke, Steam, & Cinders" that was edited by James M. Shafer and published during 1976. Depicted in relief is Pennsylvania Railroad N-6B cabin car #980901, built in August of 1916. It was enshrined at the Horseshoe Curve to remember and honor the many thousands of men and women who labored in the Altoona Works over the years.
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/14/2019 3:57:11 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  59   Comments: 0

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