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Coal drag off Erie onto PRR

These two EMD FT-type freight units are swinging thru a reverse curve at Horseheads, N.Y., with 109 cars of a westbound drag rumbling behind. The units, numbered 703a and 703b,were originally delivered in 1944 as four-unit, 5400-horsepower engines…

This is a Lackawanna westbound freight about to cross over the Pennsylvania tracks at Horseheads on the bridge pictured on the previous page. The snorting locomotive on the head-end is 4-8-4 no.1650,working hard to get up speed only a few miles out…