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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:Alco RS3Built As:PRR 8850 (RS3)
Serial Number:79408Order No:20711
Frame Number:prime mover # 12375Built:12/1951
Notes:PRR Class AS-16MS.
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 8850(RS3)
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"The 'Cat's Whiskers,'" Page 10, 1954
Title:  "The 'Cat's Whiskers,'" Page 10, 1954
Description:  Here is page one of a two-page article entitled "The 'Cat's Whiskers.'" It was published originally in the February 1954 issue of "Pennsy" magazine, page 10. Top Photo Caption: "Clearance car, with 'whiskers' extended, measures Radebaugh Tunnel. Car covers entire System every four years." Prominent here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #8850, an AS-16MS built by the American Locomotive Company in December of 1951 and rated at 1,600 horsepower.
Photo Date:  2/1/1954  Upload Date: 5/4/2022 10:25:54 PM
Location:  Radebaugh, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock,Tunnel
Locomotives:  PRR 8850(RS3)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
PRR 8847, AS-16MS, c. 1960
Title:  PRR 8847, AS-16MS, c. 1960
Description:  Oil Power. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide by an unidentified photographer that was taken in Reading, Pennsylvania, c. 1960. Shown here (R to L) are Pennsylvania Railroad engines #8847 and #8850. Both are AS-16MS's built by the American Locomotive Company in December of 1951 and rated at 1,600 horsepower each. Many thanks to Mr. James Cocuzza for identifying this location correctly.
Photo Date:  9/22/1960  Upload Date: 8/28/2018 1:57:53 AM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 8847(RS3) PRR 8850(RS3)
Views:  598   Comments: 1
PRR 8850, AS-16MS, 1960
Title:  PRR 8850, AS-16MS, 1960
Description:  4th Street. Here is an original photo that I took of a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during November of 1960. Shown here is PRR engine #8850, an AS-16MS built by the American Locomotive Company in 1951 and rated at 1,600 horsepower. Its crew is attending to a mixed-cargo freight train that has just pulled into the Eastbound Receiving Yard. Visible on the right are the largely-unused livestock pens, right next to SOUTH Tower (not shown). Photo taken from the 4th Street Bridge. ("Red Shift" slide converted to Black & White.)
Photo Date:  11/13/1960  Upload Date: 9/28/2016 1:43:23 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge,Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 8850(RS3)
Views:  486   Comments: 0


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