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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:Altoona 4-4-0Built As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:16Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Notes:PRR Class A; Altoona Machine Shops, 1869-1891.
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 13(4-4-0)
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Centennial History Of The PRR, Page 716, 1949
Title:  Centennial History Of The PRR, Page 716, 1949
Description:  Here is a photo from page 716 in the "Centennial History Of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company: 1846-1946" that was composed by George H. Burgess & Miles C. Kennedy and published in 1949. Photo Caption: "One of the first trains to be equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. This locomotive was the third Pennsylvania engine to be equipped with such brakes." Shown here is PRR engine #13, a D-1 (4-4-0) "American" built in the Altoona Machine Shops during April of 1869, sold to the Northern Central Railroad in December of 1882, and retired in December of 1891 after 22 years of multi-road service.
Photo Date:  4/13/1949  Upload Date: 9/7/2017 2:44:11 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 13(4-4-0)
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