| Portraits 1. Here is diesel locomotive portrait by an unidentified photographer that was taken at the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, c. 1955. Shown here (R to L) is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #9692 and two more units whose road numbers are not recorded. All were built by GM-EMD and rated at 1,500 horsepower each. #9692 was constructed as an EH-15 in April of 1949, but later regeared and reclassified as an EF-15A. In this context, they're pulling a mixed-cargo freight train around the Curve and down the Allegheny Mountains to Altoona and points East. Wave to the Engineman! (#6 of 20) |