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PRR Cab Ride, Authorization Order, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is a copy of the authorization order permitting Thomas H. Lantz and Thomas C. Ayers to ride in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:42:50 AM |
| Location: |
Pittsburgh, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
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InCab |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, Memorandum, 1962 |
| Description: |
Cab Ride. Here is a copy of the memorandum specifying the itinerary of Thomas H. Lantz and Thomas C. Ayers during our cab ride in a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. We did ride in a coach on train #55, "The Pennsylvania Limited," from Altoona to Pittsburgh ~ but we actually caught an earlier train for our return journey: train #16, "The Duquesne," which departed at 11:55 A.M. and arrived at 2:25 P.M. |
| Photo Date: |
12/21/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:43:17 AM |
| Location: |
Pittsburgh, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
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InCab |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #1 of 9, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is the first of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here is a westbound freight train passing on our right. (Color "Super Slide" converted to B&W.) |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:44:11 AM |
| Location: |
Greensburg, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #2 of 9, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is the second of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. "Clear" board and Notch 5 . . . rockin' 'n' rollin' through wild and wooly Western Pennsylvania! (Color "Super Slide" converted to B&W.) |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:44:38 AM |
| Location: |
Latrobe, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab,Signal |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #3 of 9, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is the third of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here are two unidentified GM-EMD "EF" Class units helping an eastbound freight near Derry, Pennsylvania. (Color "Super Slide" converted to B&W.) |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:45:00 AM |
| Location: |
Derry, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #4 of 9, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is the fourth of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here are two diesel locomotives pulling an eastbound freight near Derry, Pennsylvania. The unit closest to the camera is PRR engine #2403, an AF-24 built by the American Locomotive Company in October of 1962 and rated at 2,400 horsepower. It's practically brand new! (Color "Super Slide" converted to B&W.) |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:45:31 AM |
| Location: |
Derry, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 2403(RS27) |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #5 of 9, 1962 |
| Description: |
Cab Ride. Here is the fifth of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here are three unidentified GM-EMD "EP" Class locomotives pulling a westbound passenger train near Lilly, Pennsylvania. (Color "Super Slide" converted to B&W.) |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:45:58 AM |
| Location: |
Lilly, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Winter,InCab |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #6 of 9, 1962 |
| Description: |
Cab Ride. Here is the sixth of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here are several GM-EMD "EF" Class units hauling a string of empty hopper cars at Signals #2502 and #2504 near Lilly, Pennsylvania. The unit closest to the camera is PRR engine #9555, an EF-15A built by GM-EMD as an EH-15 in January of 1949, rated at 1,500 horsepower, later regeared and reclassified as an EF-15A, and retired in May of 1965 after just 16 years of revenue service. (Color "Super Slide" converted to B&W.) |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:46:31 AM |
| Location: |
Lilly, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab,Signal |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 9555(F3A) |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #7 of 9, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is the seventh of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here are three unidentified GM-EMD EFS-17M locomotives pulling a westbound freight train at MG Tower near Allegrippus, Pennsylvania. |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:47:02 AM |
| Location: |
Allegrippus, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab,Signal |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #8 of 9, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is the eighth of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here is snow-shorn PRR engine #1361, the retired K-4S (4-6-2) "Pacific" steam locomotive on display at the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania. Visible across the way is four-track Signal Bridge #2416/7. |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:47:38 AM |
| Location: |
ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab,Steam,Signal |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 1361(4-6-2) |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, #9 of 9, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is the ninth of nine successive original photos that I took while riding in the cab of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger locomotive on 29 December 1962. Shown here (L to R) are Thomas H. Lantz, the Locomotive Engineman, Mr. R.K. "Slim" Creighton (our PRR Escort), and the Locomotive Fireman. They're standing next to PRR engine #5708, an EP-22 built by EMD in September of 1952 and rated at 2,250 horsepower. It's parked at the Altoona Passenger Station, at the end of our journey on a very snowy afternoon! |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:48:15 AM |
| Location: |
Altoona, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5708(E8A) |
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| Title: |
PRR Cab Ride, Commemoration, 1963 |
| Description: |
Cab Ride. Here is an original photo by Ms. Amy Goodfellow that was taken at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Passenger Station in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in December of 1963. Pictured here (R to L) are Thomas H. Lantz of Duncansville, Pennsylvania, and Thomas C. Ayers of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. In this context, we're posing with an unidentified PRR diesel-electric passenger locomotive for a photo to commemorate our Cab Ride from Pittsburgh to Altoona during December of 1962. This photo was later published in our Hollidaysburg High School yearbook, the 1964 "Chimrock." |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1963 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:48:48 AM |
| Location: |
Altoona, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger |
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| Title: |
PRR Samuel Rea Shop, 1962 |
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Cab Ride. Here is an original photo that I took at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Samuel Rea Shop (SRS) in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, 18 August 1962. Shown here (L to R) are Herbert P. Ruck and James Dodson. They're standing next to a newly-built hopper car during an "Open House" at SRS. Mr. Ruck was the overall Superintendent of the Altoona Car Shops in 1962, while Mr. Dodson was a Gang Foreman at SRS. It was Mr. Ruck who arranged for Thomas H. Lantz and I to ride in the cab of a PRR passenger locomotive from Pittsburgh to Altoona on Saturday, 29 December 1962. |
| Photo Date: |
8/18/1962 Upload Date: 1/24/2025 7:49:17 AM |
| Location: |
Hollidaysburg, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
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