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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:EMD SW1Built As:PRR 5991 (SW1)
Serial Number:5668Order No:E934
Frame Number:E934-5Built:3/1948
Notes:PRR Class ES-6.
Other locos with this serial:  PC 8591(SW1) PRR 5991(SW1)
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"Busiest Mountain Railroad," Page 19, 1957
Title:  "Busiest Mountain Railroad," Page 19, 1957
Description:  Here is page four of a 15-page cover article by David P. Morgan entitldd "World's Busiest Mountakn Railroad." It was published originally in the April 1957 issue of "Trains" magazine, page 19. Photo by Philip R. Hastings. Photo Caption: "Carriage house entrance marks Pennsylvanfa Station, Pittsburgh; 12-story office behind houses region's HQ." Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5991, an ES-6 switcher built by GM-EMD in March of 1948 and rated at 605 horsepower.
Photo Date:  4/1/1957  Upload Date: 6/11/2018 4:19:04 AM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 5991(SW1)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
PRR 5991, ES-6, 1963
Title:  PRR 5991, ES-6, 1963
Description:  PGH-ALT-63. Here is an original photo that I took while riding in a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train from Pittsburgh to Altoona on 08 September 1963. Shown here is PRR engine #5991, an ES-6 built by EMD in 1948 and rated at 600 horsepower. It is shifting two "Railway Express" cabooses (viz., #5001 and #5024), just East of the PRR's Pittsburgh Passenger Station. (My train is heading from left to right.)
Photo Date:  9/8/1963  Upload Date: 9/9/2016 4:24:25 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 5991(SW1)
Views:  1353   Comments: 0


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