"Trains" Magazine, January 1948         
Here is a composit article-with-photo that was published originally in the January 1948 issue of "Trains" magazine, pages 64 & 66. Photo Caption: "This is the Friendship Train as it appeared east of Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The locomotive is a Baldwin diesel. Inset shows how some of the train's freight cars were decorated." Prominent here is PRR engine #5827 and another "Centipede" whose road number is not recorded. Both were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as 3,000 horsepower BP-60's for passenger service, but later regeared and downgraded to 2,500 horsepower BH-50's for freight and helper service. #5827 was constructed in October of 1948 and retired in September of 1962 after just 14 years of revenue service. (Don't ask me how a magazine published in January has a photo of an engine not yet built!)
Date: 1/2/1948 Location: Pittsburgh, PA   Map Show Pittsburgh on a rail map Views: 473 Collection Of:   Thomas C. Ayers
Locomotives: PRR 5827(DR12-8-1500/2)    Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
"Trains" Magazine, January 1948
Picture Categories: Bridge,Passenger This picture is part of album:  "Trains" Magazine Illustrations ~ 1940-2000
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David Van Winkle General How could PRR #5827 have been built in October, 1948 when a photo of it pulling 1947 Friendship Train is shown in January 1948 issue of Train Magazine? 12/16/2019 7:53:00 AM

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