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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:Alco RS3Built As:PRR 8851 (RS3)
Serial Number:79409Order No:20711
Frame Number:prime mover # 12383Built:1/1952
Notes:PRR Class AS-16MS.
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 8851(RS3)
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PRR 8851, AS-16MS, 1960
Title:  PRR 8851, AS-16MS, 1960
Description:  Sweetland. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by David R. Sweetland that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in March of 1960. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #8851, an AS-16MS built by the American Locomotive Company in January of 1952 and rated at 1,600 horsepower. The road number of the N-5C cabin car depicted here is not recorded.
Photo Date:  3/21/1960  Upload Date: 8/6/2019 2:16:51 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 8851(RS3)
Views:  495   Comments: 1
PRR 8851, AS-16MS, 1960
Title:  PRR 8851, AS-16MS, 1960
Description:  FSF. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by David R. Sweetland that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in May of 1960. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #8851, an AS-16MS built by the American Locomotive Company in January of 1952 and rated at 1,600 horsepower. On the Ward Trucking Company siding are several "wagon-top" boxcars recently reconditioned at the PRR's Samuel Rea Shop in Hollidaysburg. Photo taken from the 4th Street Footbridge.
Photo Date:  5/5/1960  Upload Date: 9/6/2018 7:49:21 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 8851(RS3)
Views:  618   Comments: 1
PRR 8851, AS-16MS, c. 1963
Title:  PRR 8851, AS-16MS, c. 1963
Description:  Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide via Al Chione. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #8851, an AS-16MS road switcher built by the American Locomotive Company in January of 1952 and rated at 1,600 horsepower. The photographer's name, the exact date, and the location are not recorded. (Tchowee"; #3 of 27)
Photo Date:  9/22/1963  Upload Date: 3/27/2025 6:01:32 PM
Location:  Pemberton, NJ
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 8851(RS3)
Views:  22   Comments: 0


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