| Here is a full-page advertisement for American Locomotive Company products which was published originally in the February 1953 issue of "Trains & Travel" magazine, page 4. Top Photo, Partial Caption: "When the Pennsylvania Railroad played such a prominent part in the movement of troops and munitions during the Civil War, one of its most powerful locomotives was No. 234." PRR engine #234 is a 4-6-0 "Mogul" built by the Rogers Locomotive Company during 1862 and retired in January of 1880. Bottom Photo, Partial Caption: "Here ALCO-GE motive power speeds a long passenger train through the Pennsy's famous Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pa." PRR engine #5755 is an AP-20 built by ALCo in November of 1947, rated at 2,000 horsepower, later regeared & reclassified as an AFP-20, and retired in September of 1962. |