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Thomas C. Ayers's Collection
 
7/14/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY
Model:Alco PA1Built As:AFT 1776 (PA1)
Serial Number:74696Order No:20191
Frame Number:prime mover # 10202Built:4/1947
Notes:to GM&O 292, "Freedom Train": Philadelphia, PA.
Other locos with this serial:  ALCO 1776(PA1) AFT 1776(PA1)
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GE-ALCo's "Freedom Train," #2 of 2, 1947
Title:  GE-ALCo's "Freedom Train," #2 of 2, 1947
Description:  Here is the second of two duplicate 35mm color slides by an unidentified photographer of General Electric's "Freedom Train" during its stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in September of 1947. In the lead is engine #1776, a PA1 built by the American Locomotive Company in August of 1947 and rated at 2,000 horsepower.
Photo Date:  9/22/1947  Upload Date: 6/15/2025 2:52:28 AM
Location:  Lancaster, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  ALCO 1776(PA1)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
GE-ALCo's "Freedom Train," #1 of 2, 1947
Title:  GE-ALCo's "Freedom Train," #1 of 2, 1947
Description:  Here is the first of two duplicate 35mm color slides by an unidentified photographer of General Electric's "Freedom Train" during its stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in September of 1947. In the lead is engine #1776, a PA1 built by the American Locomotive Company in August of 1947 and rated at 2,000 horsepower.
Photo Date:  9/22/1947  Upload Date: 6/15/2025 2:39:37 AM
Location:  Lancaster, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  ALCO 1776(PA1)
Views:  109   Comments: 0
GE-ALCo's "Freedom Train," 1947
Title:  GE-ALCo's "Freedom Train," 1947
Description:  Here is an original photo by an unidentified photographer of General Electric's "Freedom Train" during its visit to Philadelphia's 30th Street Station in September of 1947. In the lead is engine #1776, a PA1 built by the American Locomotive Company in August of 1947 and rated at 2,000 horsepower. Roy Healey Collection; #2 of 2.
Photo Date:  9/22/1947  Upload Date: 2/24/2018 9:30:02 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  ALCO 1776(PA1)
Views:  929   Comments: 1


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