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Owner: Reading Railroad
Model:BLW AS16Built As:RDG 563 (AS16)
Serial Number:75160Order No:
Frame Number:Built:9/1951
Notes:RDG Class AS16; Camden, NJ; 1957.
Other locos with this serial:  RDG 563(AS16)
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PRR 685, H-9S, #2 of 6, 1957
Title:  PRR 685, H-9S, #2 of 6, 1957
Description:  Camden. Here is the second of six successive duplicate 35mm color slides via Al Chione that were taken in Camden, New Jersey, on 24 June 1957. The photographer is not identified. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #685, an H-9S (2-8-0) "Consolidated" built in Juniata as an H-8B during April of 1908, rebuilt as an H-8SB in May of 1915, rebuilt as an H-9S in May of 1926, and retired in October of 1958. Partially visible at the left is Reading Railroad engine #563, an AS16 road switcher built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton and rated at 1,600 horsepower. ("Stoneborobranch"; #53 of 69)
Photo Date:  6/24/1957  Upload Date: 11/15/2020 10:28:41 AM
Location:  Camden, NJ
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  PRR 685(2-8-0) RDG 563(AS16)
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