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Owner: Penn Central
Type: Caboose
AAR Class: NE: Caboose
AAR Type: M930
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
PC Class:   N5E
User Notes:   ex-PRR 477594

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PC 22983
Title:  PC 22983
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/7/2015 1:48:25 PM
Location:  Buffalo (Frontier Ya, NY
Author:  Christopher Smith
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Locomotives: 
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"Rail Guide To The Horseshoe Curve," Page 18, 1976
Title:  "Rail Guide To The Horseshoe Curve," Page 18, 1976
Description:  Here is page 18 of a 28-page booklet entitled "Rail Guide To The Horseshoe Curve." It was published originally in 1976 by PC Publications of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Photo Caption: "The eastbound National Limited starts into the Horseshoe Curve just as it passes the helper engines of a westbound freight ascending the east slope of the Alleghenies. Photo by Bill Metzger." Prominent here is Penn Central engine #6186, an SD45 built by GM-EMD for the Pennsylvania Railroad as number "6186" in December of 1967 and rated at 3,600 horsepower. Also visible are PC cabooses #23624 and #22983; the latter is ex-PRR N-5E cabin car #477594.
Photo Date:  8/15/1976  Upload Date: 1/23/2022 7:18:11 PM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives:  PC 6186(SD45)
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