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Baldwin Locomotive Works DR12-8-1500/2
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Pictures of PRR 5821
Owner:
Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:
BLW DR12-8-1500/2
Built As:
PRR 5833A2 (DR12-8-1500/2)
Serial Number:
73386A2
Order No:
Frame Number:
Built:
2/1948
Notes:
PRR Class BH-50.
Other locos with this serial:
PRR 5821(DR12-8-1500/2)
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Title:
PRR Centipede at 14th St ready track
Description:
If the "Baby Face" is really the 5821 (Hard to read the number) it is also pictured in Douglas and Weiglin's Pennsy Diesel Years 1942-1968 at P. 57. It had been downrated to 5000 HP and repainted into freight colors
Photo Date:
3/3/1951
Upload Date:
1/25/2011 4:50:26 PM
Location:
Saint Louis, MO
Author:
Lew Schneider
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
PRR 5821(DR12-8-1500/2)
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4602
Comments:
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Title:
PRR 5891, EP-22, 1959
Description:
Volkmer. Here is an image of a photo (converted to B&W) by William D. Volkmer that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 18 April 1959. Parked in the Pennsylvania Railroad's Erecting & Machine Shop storage yard is engine #5891, an EP-22 built by GM-EMD in April of 1950 and rated at 2,250 horsepower. To its immediate left is Baldwin-built "Centipede" #5821. In the foreground is PRR gondola #244227. William E. Burket Collection.
Photo Date:
4/18/1959
Upload Date:
7/17/2022 8:30:19 PM
Location:
Altoona(Juniata), PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:
PRR 5891(E8A)
PRR 5821(DR12-8-1500/2)
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393
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Title:
PRR 5821, BH-50, 1959
Description:
Volkmer. Here is an original 35mm color slide by William D. Volkmer that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 30 August 1959. Shown here (L to R) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5821 and another unit whose road number is not recorded. Both are BH-50's built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works as BP-60's rated at 3,000 horsepower each, but later regeared and classified as BH-50's rated at 2,500 horsepower each. #5821 was constructed in February of 1948 and retired in September of 1962 after just 14 years of revenue service.
Photo Date:
8/30/1959
Upload Date:
6/4/2023 12:20:52 AM
Location:
Altoona(Juniata), PA
Author:
Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
PRR 5821(DR12-8-1500/2)
Views:
299
Comments:
0
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