| Title: |
"Trains" Magazine, December 1967 |
| Description: |
Here is a photo that was published originally in the December 1967 issue of "Trains" magazine, page 42. Partial Caption: "U-30C's are 67 feet 3 inches long, can be ballasted from a basic 360,000 to 420,000 pounds, carry 4000 gallons of fuel, incorporate GE's FDL16D V-16 engine, and can be geared from 70 mph." Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #6539, a GF-30A built by General Electric in February of 1967 and rated at 3,000 horsepower. There were just five engines of this class; they were the last locomotives ever ordered by and delivered to the "Standard Railroad of the World." |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/22/2018 11:50:24 AM |
| Location: |
Erie, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
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| Locomotives: |
PRR 6539(U30C) |
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