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12/24/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Gary Everhart
Dates:7/19/1956 - 6/1/1963
Album Info:Here are some candid photos of Pennsylvania Geeps taken by various photographers during the 1950's & 1960's.
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PRR 8500
Title:  PRR 8500
Description:  Here is the first of many EMD 1500 hp GP7's that EMD built for the Pennsy. This one rolled out in 1952. Joseph Mc Cormick photo
Photo Date:  5/1/1954  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:22:58 AM
Location:  Gardenville, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8500(GP7)
Views:  574   Comments: 0
PR 8501
Title:  PR 8501
Description:  This is the 2nd GP7 loco that EMD rolled out for the Pennsylvania RR in 1952. Note the vignetting around the outside edge. Joseph Mc Cormick, the photographer, added this comment on the back, "(Note radio antenna) Geeps are used for helper service"
Photo Date:  5/1/1954  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:05 AM
Location:  Gardenville, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8501(GP7)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
PRR 8501, 8500 & 8502
Title:  PRR 8501, 8500 & 8502
Description:  Here are three consecutive numbered EMD GP7's built in 1952 sitll shiny with little road grime. Interesteing note on back by the photographer Joseph McCormack, "Always kept together and used for helper (pusher) service." Interesting as he has photos of all three separate from each other and not kept together!
Photo Date:  5/1/1954  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:11 AM
Location:  Gardenville, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8501(GP7) PRR 8500(GP7) PRR 8502(GP7)
Views:  1044   Comments: 0
PRR 8502
Title:  PRR 8502
Description:  EMD GP7 #8502 lis caught at Gardenville (Buffalo, NY) yard still looking fairly clean after being delivered to the Pennsy in 1952. Note the vignetting around the edges, possibly from a photo hood pulled to far out. Joseph Mc Cormick photo
Photo Date:  7/1/1955  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:17 AM
Location:  Gardenville, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8502(GP7)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
PRR 8551
Title:  PRR 8551
Description:  This 1953 EMD GP7 is working the yard at Sodus Point, NY, on this July day in 1956. Joseph Mc Cormick photo
Photo Date:  7/19/1956  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:22 AM
Location:  Sodus Point, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8551(GP7)
Views:  783   Comments: 0
PRR 8585
Title:  PRR 8585
Description:  EMD GP7 #8585 is dragging in a string of Pennsy varnish at the Chicago Union Station yards on a day in 1963. No exact day was noted nor was a photographer listed for this photo.
Photo Date:  6/1/1963  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:26 AM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8585(GP7)
Views:  861   Comments: 0
PRR 7253
Title:  PRR 7253
Description:  Heading up a 4 GP unit freight, #7253 was caught with a string of freight cars heading toward Dolton, IL, junction on this March day in 1963. Built in 1959 by EMD for the Pennsy, this 1750 hp unit survived the PC marger. Unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  6/1/1963  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:37 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 7253(GP9)
Views:  566   Comments: 0


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