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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:BLW RF-16ABuilt As:PRR 9730A (RF-16A)
Serial Number:74993Order No:
Frame Number: Built:2/1951
Notes:PRR Class BF-16.
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 9730(RF-16A)
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PRR 9730, BF-16, 1957
Title:  PRR 9730, BF-16, 1957
Description:  ARB. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by David R. Sweetland that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on 17 July 1957. Prominent here (L to R) are Pennsylvania Railroad engines #9730 and a Shark "B" unit whose number is not recorded. Both were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. #9730 is a BF-16 built in February of 1951, rated at 1,600 horsepower, and retired in July of 1966 after just 15 years of revenue service. They're about to pass under Juniata's 8th Street Bridge with a mixed-cargo freight train on their way to 4th Street, where they'll stop for a crew change before proceeding up the Allegheny Mountains via the Horseshoe Curve to Gallitzin and points West. Partially visible at the left is PRR engine #7602, an ES-17M built by GM-EMD and rated at 1,750 horsepower.
Photo Date:  7/17/1957  Upload Date: 8/28/2018 2:01:45 AM
Location:  Altoona(Juniata), PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 9730(RF-16A) PRR 7602(SD9)
Views:  2536   Comments: 1
PRR 9730, BF-16, 1964
Title:  PRR 9730, BF-16, 1964
Description:  WIL-ALT-64. Here is an original photo that I took while riding in a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train from Harrisburg to Altoona on 03 July 1964. Shown here (F to R) are PRR engine #9730 and an another unit whose number is not recorded. #9730 is a BF-16 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1951 and rated at 1,600 horsepower. They are pulling a westbound mixed-cargo freight train near Mount Union, Pennsylvania.
Photo Date:  7/3/1964  Upload Date: 9/12/2016 12:44:04 PM
Location:  Mount Union, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PRR 9730(RF-16A)
Views:  535   Comments: 0


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