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12/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Thomas C. Ayers
Dates:8/15/1924 - 8/15/1924
Album Info:Here are several photographs relating to the Pennsylvania Railroad from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924. No author is specified. The booklet commemorates the 75th anniversary of the founding of "The Keystone City of the Great Keystone State."
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"Altoona" Booklet, Covers, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Covers, 1924
Description:  Here are the back and front covers of a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924. The booklet commemorates the 75th anniversary of the founding of "The Keystone City of the Great Keystone State."
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 4:42:01 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
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"Altoona" Booklet, Page 4, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Page 4, 1924
Description:  Here is a photo from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924, page 4. Photo Caption: "World-famous Horseshoe Curve, on the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, four miles West of Altoona."
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 4:52:58 AM
Location:  ALTOONA (HORSESHOE C, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Station,Signal
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"Altoona" Booklet, Page 6, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Page 6, 1924
Description:  Here is a photo from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924, page 6. Photo Caption: "Historic Logan House, at Altoona Station. Here the Loyal War Governors met in 1862."
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 4:53:55 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger
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"Altoona" Booklet, Pages 30-31, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Pages 30-31, 1924
Description:  Here are photos from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924, pages 30-31. Top Left Photo Caption: "More than an Altoona Product ~ an Altoona Symbol." The road number of the locomotive pictured here is not recorded.
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 4:57:31 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam
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"Altoona" Booklet, Pages 32-33, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Pages 32-33, 1924
Description:  Here are photos from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924, pages 32-33. Bottom Right Photo Caption: "Some of the brawn that built and maintains the greatest Railroad Shops in the world."
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 5:00:40 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Steam,Signal
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"Altoona" Booklet, Pages 34-35, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Pages 34-35, 1924
Description:  Here are photos from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924, pages 34-35. Bottom Right Photo Caption: "Locomotive on test table, where it can run seventy miles an hour and yet remain stationary." The road number of the locomotive pictured here is not recorded.
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 5:04:03 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard,Steam
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"Altoona" Booklet, Page 47, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Page 47, 1924
Description:  Here is a photo from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924, page 47. Photo Caption: "President [Samuel] Rea and other Pennsylvania Railroad officials awarding cups at Pennsylvania Railroad System Athletic Meet."
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 5:05:21 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
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"Altoona" Booklet, Page 50, 1924
Title:  "Altoona" Booklet, Page 50, 1924
Description:  Here is a photo from a 72-page booklet entitled "Altoona" that was published originally in 1924, page 50. Photo Caption: "A wee laddie doing the Highland Fling at a Pennsylvania Railroad athletic meet. The piper is one of Altoona's Kiltie Band."
Photo Date:  8/15/1924  Upload Date: 1/14/2023 5:06:40 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
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Views:  66   Comments: 0


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