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"Trains & Travel" Magazine, January 1953 |
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Prominent here is a photo taken by Linn H. Westcott that was published originally in the January 1953 issue of "Trains & Travel" magazine, pages 32-33. Photo Caption: "Interchange in a snowstorm: A Pennsylvania diesel idles at Effner, Ill., waiting for a Toledo, Peoria, & Western engine to come get the train that the Pennsy crew has brought from Logansport. Effner is a direct interchange point which straddles the Indiana-Illinois border." Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5681, an LS-25 built by Lima-Hamilton in 1950, rated at 2,500 horsepower, and retired in March of 1965 after just 15 years of revenue service. |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1953 Upload Date: 7/17/2025 8:43:15 AM |
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Effner, IL |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
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Winter |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5681(LT-2500) SLSF 2010(E8A) |
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68 Comments: 0 |
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"Horseshoe Curve," Front Cover, 2004 |
| Description: |
Here is the front cover of a 24-page cover article entitled "Horseshoe Curve: 150 Years." It was published originally on the August 2004 issue of "Trains" magazine. Photo Caption: "A Lima T-2500 transfer unit helps a westbound on Horseshoe Curve, 1951. Photo by Thomas J. McNamara." Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5681, an LS-25 built by Lima-Hamilton in 1950, rated at 2,500 horsepower, and retired in March of 1965 after just 15 years of revenue service. Also visible is PRR N-8 caboose #478202. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2004 Upload Date: 10/28/2017 2:07:40 AM |
| Location: |
ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5681(LT-2500) |
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777 Comments: 0 |
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