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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:EMD GP7Built As:PRR 8501 (GP7)
Serial Number:16757Order No:5169
Frame Number:5169-2Built:8/1952
Notes:PRR Class ES-15MS; blt 8/1952, PC & CR 5954
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 8501(GP7)
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PR 8501
Title:  PR 8501
Description:  This is the 2nd GP7 loco that EMD rolled out for the Pennsylvania RR in 1952. Note the vignetting around the outside edge. Joseph Mc Cormick, the photographer, added this comment on the back, "(Note radio antenna) Geeps are used for helper service"
Photo Date:  5/1/1954  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:05 AM
Location:  Gardenville, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8501(GP7)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
PRR 8501, 8500 & 8502
Title:  PRR 8501, 8500 & 8502
Description:  Here are three consecutive numbered EMD GP7's built in 1952 sitll shiny with little road grime. Interesteing note on back by the photographer Joseph McCormack, "Always kept together and used for helper (pusher) service." Interesting as he has photos of all three separate from each other and not kept together!
Photo Date:  5/1/1954  Upload Date: 11/5/2015 5:23:11 AM
Location:  Gardenville, NY
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 8501(GP7) PRR 8500(GP7) PRR 8502(GP7)
Views:  1048   Comments: 0
PRR 8501, ES-15MS, 1963
Title:  PRR 8501, ES-15MS, 1963
Description:  Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide by an unidentified photographer that was taken in Chicago, Illinois, during June of 1963. Prominent here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #8501, an ES-15MS built by GM-EMD August of 1952 and rated at 1,500 horsepower. In this context, it's pulling a four-coach commuter train out of Chicago's Union Station. ("Tchowee"; #28 of 29)
Photo Date:  6/17/1963  Upload Date: 5/8/2020 5:19:42 PM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Signal,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 8501(GP7)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
PRR GP7 8501
Title:  PRR GP7 8501
Description:  Pennsylvania Railroad GP7 8501 around 59th Street in Chicago, Illinois on October 10, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in August 1952 (c/n 16757) on EMD Order 5169, it was renumbered to PRR 5951, became PC 5951, later PC 5954, then CR 5954. It did not have dynamic brakes but it was equipped with a steam generator.
Photo Date:  10/10/1965  Upload Date: 6/3/2009 6:54:24 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PRR 8501(GP7)
Views:  1500   Comments: 0


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