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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:EMD GP9Built As:PRR 7031 (GP9)
Serial Number:20735Order No:5408
Frame Number:5408-32Built:11/1955
Notes:PRR Class EFS-17M.
Other locos with this serial:  PC 7031(GP9) CR 7031(GP9) PRR 7031(GP9)
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PRR Locomotive Ready Tracks, 1963
Title:  PRR Locomotive Ready Tracks, 1963
Description:  Altoona. Here is a photo by an unidentified photographer that was taken from the 17h Street Bridge in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1963. Shown here are the Pennsylvania Railroad's Locomotive Ready Tracks. Among the more than two dozen diesel-electric locomotives pictured here is engine #7031, an EFS-17M road switcher built by GM-EMD in November of 1955 and rated at 1,750 horsepower. The names of the two Railroaders pictured here are not recorded. Discernable in the upper far right is the PRR"s Erecting & Machine Shop in Juniata. Brad Mann Collection.
Photo Date:  8/15/1963  Upload Date: 8/7/2025 12:36:24 AM
Location:  Altoona(Juniata), PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 7031(GP9)
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