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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:EMD GP7Built As:PRR 8797 (GP7)
Serial Number:12395Order No:5060
Frame Number:5060-1Built:1/1952
Notes:PRR Class ES-15M.
Other locos with this serial:  CRL 4(GP7) LSBC 5897(GP7) CR 5897(GP7) LSBC 4(GP7) PRR 8797(GP7)
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PRR 5648, AS-10, c. 1962
Title:  PRR 5648, AS-10, c. 1962
Description:  Showalter. Here is an original photo by H.N. Proctor. Shown here (L to R) are Pennsylvania Railroad engines #5648 and #8797. #5648 is an AS-10 built by the American Locomotive Company in April of 1950 and rated at 1,000 horsepower. #8797 is an ES-15M built by GM-EMD in January of 1952 and rated at 1,500 horsepower. The exact date and the location are not recorded. (2; #1 of 4)
Photo Date:  7/25/1962  Upload Date: 9/3/2020 7:15:53 AM
Location:  Pitcairn, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 5648(S2) PRR 8797(GP7)
Views:  477   Comments: 0
PRR 8797, ES-15M, c. 1963
Title:  PRR 8797, ES-15M, c. 1963
Description:  Chione. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide via Al Chione. Prominent here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #8797, an ES-15M built by GM-EMD in January of 1952 and rated at 1,500 horsepower. The photographer's name, the exact date, and the location are not recorded.
Photo Date:  3/21/1963  Upload Date: 9/29/2023 8:38:33 AM
Location:  Louisville, KY
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PRR 8797(GP7)
Views:  108   Comments: 0
PRR 8797, ES-15M, 1965
Title:  PRR 8797, ES-15M, 1965
Description:  Oil Power. Here is an original photo that I took while riding a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train near Downingtown, Pennsylvania, during August of 1965, Shown here is PRR engine #8797, an ES-15M built by EMD in January of 1952 and rated at 1,500 horsepower. It's pulling a westbound "wide-load" special in electrified territory.
Photo Date:  8/15/1965  Upload Date: 9/15/2016 3:18:56 AM
Location:  Downingtown, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Passenger,Track
Locomotives:  PRR 8797(GP7)
Views:  1060   Comments: 2
"Altoona Shops," Back Cover #2, 1996
Title:  "Altoona Shops," Back Cover #2, 1996
Description:  Here is the second of two photographs on the back cover of the Autumn 1996 issue of "Keystone" magazine. Photo Caption: "Both the freight diesels and the reefers in the background command attention in this view from the old Altoona 8th St. footbridge, looking northwest, on July 25, 1952. The freight station was demolished about a year after this photo was taken." Photo by John Dziobko, Jr. Shown here (L to R) are Pennsylvania Railroad engines #8797 and #8798. Both are ES-15M's built by GM-EMD in 1952 and rated at 1,500 horsepower each.
Photo Date:  9/22/1996  Upload Date: 11/23/2017 3:01:09 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  PRR 8797(GP7) PRR 8798(GP7)
Views:  600   Comments: 0


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