| Here is a postal card entitled "Pennsylvania 9454." No Postmark. Caption On Reverse: "A little more than a mile west of downtown Altoona, Penn., at Brick Yard, westbound trains earn their keep lifting trains upgrade to Horseshoe Curve. An A-B-A set of Fairbanks-Morse CF16-4's is seen here. October 1962. Photo by David R. Sweetland." Shown here (L to R) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #9454 and two more units whose road numbers are not recorded. All are FF-20's rated at 1,600 horsepower each. #9454 was built in September of 1950 and retired in April of 1965 after just 15 years of revenue service. |