Snapping the First Class  Contributor's Pick!       
No.25 - The Duquesne - with a pair of U25C helpers and three E units with 22 cars and healthy head-end traffic is coming out of Scotch Run Curve at MP 241 on this first day of September, 1966 at a time when renumbering of locomotives had begun for the pending Penn-Central merger. PRR helpers on the point were referred to as "snappers". Note the lead E unit still has its trainphone antennas.
Date: 9/1/1966 Location: ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA Views: 2792 Collection Of:   Rick Erben
Locomotives: PRR 4276(E8A) PRR 6514(U25C) PRR 6516(U25C) PRR 4206(E7A) PRR 4117B(E7B)    Author:  Rick Erben
Snapping the First Class
Picture Categories: Scenic,Action This picture is part of album:  Flashes from the past
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Olaf Junges General Awesome photo! 10/14/2012 4:58:17 AM

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