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D&H PA1 17
Title:  D&H PA1 17
Description:  D&H PA1 17 at Albany, New York, on April 6 1975, photo by John Eagan, Chuck Zeiler collection, note the Bicentennial flags on the locomotive. This locomotive was originally AT&SF #60L, built October 1948 (c/n 76537), retired and sold to the D&H December 17, 1967. Before retirement, the grills had been modified by the Santa Fe to match their PA2's, so it lost its Alco characteristic drip strip behind the cab door, and the grills do not match the other three PA4's on D&H's roster. By 1975, only three of the four D&H PA1's were operable, and the railroad took steps to make them more reliable. The 16 cylinder Model 244 prime mover in 17 had effectively been destroyed in an accident at the Colonie Shops, so it was replaced with a spare. Meanwhile, PA1's 16 and 19 were stripped of their prime movers and sent to Morrison-Knudsen in Idaho for installation of 12 cylinder Model 251F prime movers from Bombardier, which had purchased Montreal Locomotive Works earlier in 1975. The GT566 main generator was re-used, and the electrical system was upgraded to allow 2400 horespower in full parallel. In addition, the inadequate cab heat in winter problem was addressed. It was found that the cab was de-pressurized by the auxiliary equipment pulling in air, which was cured by additional ducting to supply the auxiliaries and a cab heater of higher capacity. When the first two PA4's (as the re-built units were designated) were returned to the D&H, the second two (17 and 18) were cycled through the re-building program. By November 8, 1975, 17 had been returned to the D&H, but the intended assignment, the New York-Montreal "Adirondack", was short-lived, and by 1977, Amtrak introduced their Turboliners, which had the added advantage of being able to operate over third-rail territory and into Grand Central Terminal, avoiding a locomotive change. The PA4's were briefly leased to the MBTA in Boston, but by 1979 they were sold to Diesels International, and then re-sold to FNM in Mexico. While at Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (FNM), it acquired train indicator number boards and a SP inspired Daylight paint scheme. This locomotive is presently on display at the Museo de la Comisin Federal de Electricidad, Mxico.
Photo Date:  4/6/1975  Upload Date: 11/7/2010 10:29:25 AM
Location:  Albany, NY
Author:  John Eagan
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  DH 17(PA1)
Views:  1832   Comments: 1
EL PA1 854
Title:  EL PA1 854
Description:  Erie Lackawanna PA1 854 a little south of 47th Street in Chicago, Illinois on January 9, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in April 1949 (c/n 76912) as Erie PA1 854, it became EL class PA-20 854 and was traded to EMD for new power in 1969. Scrawled on the side are the words: DIRT TEST DO NOT WASH (not my writing), and it appears the test is going well. The Erie rostered 12 PA1's (#'s 850-661) and two PA2's (#'s 862-863), and according to the December 1986 issue of Mainline Modeler Magazine, "The Erie's twelve PA1's spent much of their early lives in joint P&LE Cleveland - Youngstown - Pittsburgh service, but even made trips to Dearborn Station in Chicago, albeit often trailing E8's. Their black and yellow livery gave way to green and gray and eventually to Erie Lackawanna's gray and maroon. In 1951 a pair of PA2's were added to the roster. By the 1960's the PA's had become freight haulers out of Marion, Ohio and survived in this service until at least 1968."
Photo Date:  1/9/1966  Upload Date: 4/2/2009 12:09:33 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  EL 854(PA1)
Views:  1677   Comments: 0
EL PA1 855
Title:  EL PA1 855
Description:  Erie Lackawanna PA1 855 at about 47th Street in Chicago, Illinois on October 10, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to an old City of Chicago map I have, this location was known as Lowe Park, approximately 52nd Street and Normal Avenue. The Erie and later, the EL had a small yard and engine facility at that location. This locomotive was built as Erie PA1 855 in September 1949 (c/n 77103) and retained that road number on the EL, classed PA-20. No longer in passenger service, it was re-geared for freight service, although the steam heat connection is still visible through the slot at the bottom of the pilot. It was traded to EMD for new power in 1969.
Photo Date:  10/10/1965  Upload Date: 4/3/2009 11:51:55 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EL 855(PA1)
Views:  1736   Comments: 0
EL PA1 856
Title:  EL PA1 856
Description:  Erie Lackawanna PA1 856, a bit south of 47th Street in Chicago, Illinois on October 31, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built as Erie PA1 856 in September 1949 (c/n 77104) this unit was traded to EMD for new power in 1969.
Photo Date:  10/31/1965  Upload Date: 3/27/2009 6:19:58 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EL 856(PA1)
Views:  1356   Comments: 0
EL PA1 856
Title:  EL PA1 856
Description:  Erie Lackawanna PA1 856 at Lowe Park in Chicago, Illinois on October 31, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. An unfortunate lighting situation. This locomotive was built in September 1949 as Erie PA1 856 (c/n 77104), one of 12 Erie PA1's numbered 850-861. They retained the Erie road numbers when they became Erie Lackawanna locomotives (class PA-20 on the EL), and at the time of this photo, the PA1's had been re-geared for freight service. All were traded to EMD for new power during 1969.
Photo Date:  10/31/1965  Upload Date: 4/9/2009 11:49:44 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EL 856(PA1)
Views:  1325   Comments: 0
Wabash PA-1 1050
Title:  Wabash PA-1 1050
Description:  Wabash PA-1 1050 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, February 9, 1964, photo by Lou Schmitz, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built in May 1949 as Wabash 1020 (c/n 77081), it was later renumbered to 1050. The following is exerpted from the book, "A Centennial Rememberance", by Richard T. Steinbrenner:

The 1947 order for 11 PA-1's by the Nickel Plate Road introduced the 45 degree angle number board on PA-1's. Nickel Plate's neighbor Wabash acquired a total of four PA-1's in May 1949 (delivered as #'s 1020-1020A, 1021-1021A, later renumbered 1050-1053), which joined a small fleet of E-7's already on the property. Through the years, the Alco's ran in multiple with the EMD's in service to St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, and Detroit. In later years, the Wabash PA's lost their striking blue-gray-white colors for a more spartan all-blue with gold stripe. The PA's lasted into the N&W merger and were traded in to Alco by the N&W in March 1965 for new power. One unit had been wrecked, and the Wabash obtained one of the ex-Nickel Plate PA's to be cannibalized to rebuild the wrecked unit. This effort was terminated by the N&W merger.

Photo Date:  2/9/1964  Upload Date: 2/22/2011 11:21:18 AM
Location:  Council Bluffs, IA
Author:  Lou Schmitz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WAB 1050(PA1)
Views:  4644   Comments: 0
D&RGW PA1 6001
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6001
Description:  D&RGW PA1 6001 at Colorado Springs, Colorado on August 20, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This is Train #1, The Royal Gorge, which departed Denver at 9:00 AM, Mountain Standard Time, and arrived in Colorado Springs at 10:40 AM. Ten minutes was allowed for the station stop during which the CB&Q's Denver Zephyr cars were cut off the train. Note the blue flag (sign) hanging in the Engineer's window. After the DZ cars are uncoupled, #1 will continue on to Pueblo and then terminate at Salida at 3:15 PM. The DZ cars will be moved to the other side of town by the Rio Grande's switcher and picked up by the returning The Royal Gorge, Train #2, and forwarded to Denver where they will be cut into the waiting Denver Zephyr for the final leg of the journey to Chicago.
Photo Date:  8/20/1964  Upload Date: 9/30/2010 2:17:11 PM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 6001(PA1)
Views:  2017   Comments: 0
D&RGW PA1 6001
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6001
Description:  D&RGW PA1 6001 at Colorado Springs, Colorado on August 20, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This is D&RGW's Tr|in #1, the Royal Gorge, which has just arrived from Denver. On the back of the train are cars from the CB&Q's Denver Zephyr. The DZ's cars will be cut off and a D&RGW switcher will drag them to the other side of town, where the will be attached to the northbound Royal Gorge and returned to Denver for the trip back to Chicago. This is what "Colorado Springs Connection" meant in both the CB&Q and D&RGW timetables.
Photo Date:  8/20/1964  Upload Date: 12/6/2010 10:32:07 AM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 6001(PA1)
Views:  1899   Comments: 0
D&RGW PA1 6001
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6001
Description:  D&RGW PA1 6001 at Denver Union Station in Denver, Colorado on August 26, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler
Photo Date:  8/26/1965  Upload Date: 12/6/2010 11:00:24 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 6001(PA1)
Views:  1893   Comments: 1
D&RGW PA1 6001
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6001
Description:  D&RGW VO-660 72 and PA1 6001 at Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 20, 1964. Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The switcher will pick up the cars setout after the first dome in this photo. This is Train #1 on both the CB&Q and D&RGW. The Rio Grande's Number 1, The Royal Gorge, will cootinue west and the switcher will put the setout cars onto the back of their freight cars and drag them over to the other side of town, a true mixed train. This is how the CB&Q managed the Colorado Springs Connection. Is wsn't a bad deal; you got to ride all the way from Chicago to Colorado Springs without leaving your bedroom compartment on the train. You were assured of meal service bec`use the CB&Q pent their Chuck Wagon dome diner along on the connection from Denver to Colorado Springs. They generally switched 3-4 cars to the Rio Grande's #1 to get them moved to Colorado Springs. I had the pleasure of that trip when I was 16. Sadly, I did not get to enjoy a ride on the mixed train, but my parents indulged me enough to get a couple of photos, here's one.
Photo Date:  9/29/2010  Upload Date: 9/29/2010 2:10:10 PM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 72(VO-660) DRGW 6001(PA1)
Views:  3217   Comments: 0
SP PA1 6006
Title:  SP PA1 6006
Description:  SP PA1 6006, Ogden Utah, October 3, 1958, photographer unknown, Chuck Zeiler collection. Sometimes mistaken for a PA3, a model never built by Alco, this locomotive was built as a PA1 in 1948. Due to renumbering in 1949, my best guess is that 6006 was built as 6005C. The following is from the book, A Centennial Remembrance, by Richard T. Steinbrenner (c.2003, On Track Publishers, ISBN: 0911122-07-9): The SPs Pacific Lines basic acquisition policy of A-B-A sets continued to be followed with the PA-2/PB-2 orders. Alco delivered two sets in August-September 1950. By then the SP was using a new numbering system; the PAs continued in the 6000 series, and the PBs were numbered in the 5900 series. The PA-1/PB-1s numbered in the 6000 A-B-C sequence were renumbered into the new scheme, as were the subsidiaries PA-1 units. The SP came back for two more sets in April 1952, and then, in Alcos last big order for PA/PBs, for two batches, which were delivered in June-July and September-October 1953. The first batch was three sets of the usual A-B-As, but the second batch of 12 units was all PAs, equipped with standard Alco pilots. For most of their careers, the SPs Pacific Lines PA/PBs were assigned to the West Oakland Shops for maintenance although for a while seven of the final units were assigned to Taylor Yard in Los Angeles for Coast Line service to San Francisco. While the PA/PBs also operated on the San Joaquin Division on occasion, their principal assignments were on the Shasta Daylight and Cascade trains between San Francisco-Oakland and Portland, OR, and on the Overland route between Ogden, UT and San Francisco-Oakland. Beginning with the 1952 deliveries, the PA-2s came from Alco without pilots, enabling the SP to apply its own design snowplow pilots, built at the Sacramento Shops. The 1953 units incorporated the Model 244G prime mover, which included the new water-cooled turbochargers (Alco Model 710), and had distinctive stainless steel moldings around the windshields. In the meantime, maintenance costs of the 1948-49 PA-1/PB-1s had become problematic, and from July 1952 to March 1953 the West Oakland Shops replaced all their prime movers with 2250 hp Model 244Ds at the rate of four units per month. With the completion of the program, all the SP units were essentially PA-2/PB-2s. In 1956 the SP undertook a modernization program to encompass its entire PA/PB fleet. The prototypes were six high mileage units, which were stripped down to the frame and truss supports, then sandblasted down to bare metal. With GEs guidance, the SP had designed a new electrical equipment cabinet, greatly modernized and simplified. The new cabinets were preassembled and installed into the frame and truss from overhead. All of the previous wiring that snaked through the underframe was replaced and run in the engineroom overhead in troughs for ease of maintenance. Plug electrical connectors were replaced by screw connector blocks for greater reliability. The control equipment was upgraded and repackaged into compartments that featured greater accessibility. The first unit through was #6021, and by June, a three-unit set was ready for road testing. The Sacramento Shops proceeded to rebuild the entire PA/PB fleet in this manner. Externally, the most obvious effect of the upgrade was the application of Farr-Aire grills to all units that did not already have them (Alco had phased in the application of the Farr-Aire grills on the last order for 18 units to the MP in June-July 1952, which eliminated the PAs signature drip strip and horizontal slatted carbody grill). However, on the SP units, the Farr-Aire grills were not continuous along the side; rather solid panels were fixed between the grill sections.
Photo Date:  10/3/1958  Upload Date: 5/30/2009 12:05:22 PM
Location:  Ogden, UT
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SP 6006(PA1)
Views:  4872   Comments: 4
D&RGW PA1 6011
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6011
Description:  This is northbound Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's Train Number 2, The Royal Gorge, led by PA1 6011 somewhere north of Colorado Springs, Colorado on August 20, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. From front to back: PA1 6011, an unidentifed PB1, a heavyweight RPO, a heavyweight baggage, I believe a diner, a Rock Island Chair Car, a UP Chair Car, one of Rio Grande's domes from the Cheesie train. The rest of the train is the CB&Q's Denver Zephyr Colorado Springs connection (picked up in Colorado Springs) and consists of: a GN coach, a 10-6 sleeper, one of the Chuck Wagon dome/lounge/dormitory cars, a Slumbercoach, and another sleeper. Upon arrival in Denver, a CB&Q Alco S2 will remove the DZ cars and cut them into the waiting Zephyr for the rest of the trip to Chicago.
Photo Date:  8/20/1964  Upload Date: 6/8/2013 2:46:52 PM
Location:  Colorado Springs, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 6011(PA1)
Views:  1254   Comments: 0
D&RGW PA1 6011
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6011
Description:  D&RGW PA1 6011 at Denver, Colorado on August 20, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This was Train # 2, the Royal Gorge, daily train between Denver, Pueblo, and Salida (as Train # 1) and return (as Train # 2). It's about 4:00 PM MST, and # 2 has just arrived. Attached to the rear were cars from CB&Q's Denver Zephyr, which this train picked up in Colorado Springs. Upon arrival in Denver a CB&Q Alco S2 switcher removed the Zephyr cars and cut them into the waiting CB&Q Train # 10, the eastbound Denver Zephyr, part of which can bee seen on the far left side. Once the brakes are tested, the Zephyr will depart for its overnight run to Chicago. I was fortunate to be a 16 year old passenger on both trains, and never slept a wink all the way to Chicago, even though my parents had booked a Slumbercoach duplex sleeper room for me. I sat in empty Denver Zephyr dome cars all night to Chicago. I had my choice of two dome cars on # 10, I preferred the forward dome because you could watch the signals change as the train passed each one, but the rear dome was for first class passengers, so it had that advantage. Everyone was in bed and the crew didn't care where I sat.
Photo Date:  8/20/1964  Upload Date: 11/3/2010 1:30:11 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 6011(PA1)
Views:  2226   Comments: 0
D&RGW PA1 6011
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6011
Description:  D&RGW PA1 6011 at Salida, Colorado on August 25, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 6011 was built in April 1947 as D&RGW PA1 601A (c/n 74686), was renumbered to 6011 March 6, 1950, traded to EMD on an SD45 order December 20, 1967. It is seen here having arrived in Salida as Train #1, The Royal Gorge. Train #1 left Denver at 9:00 AM with a couple of cars from CB&Q's Denver Zephyr attached. The Zephyr cars were cut off at Colorado Springs and the train continued on to Pueblo where it met its counterpart, Train #2. Train #2 will pick up the Zephyr cars left by #1 and return them to Denver. This train continued on to Salida and will return as #2 departing Salida the next day at 9:00 AM.
Photo Date:  8/25/1965  Upload Date: 10/18/2010 1:13:04 PM
Location:  Salida, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 6011(PA1)
Views:  5465   Comments: 10
D&RGW PA1 6013
Title:  D&RGW PA1 6013
Description:  D&RGW PA1 6013 at Denver Union Station, Denver, Colorado on August 20, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 6013 was built in April 1947 as D&RGW PA1 601C (c/n 74687), renumbered to 6013 March 6, 1950, retired July 20, 1967 and sold for scrap to Precision Engineering.
Photo Date:  8/20/1964  Upload Date: 11/3/2010 12:51:46 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 6013(PA1)
Views:  2227   Comments: 0

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