| Here is the first of two photographs on the back cover of the Autumn 1996 issue of "Keystone" magazine. Photo Caption: "Crew change on ALCo #5752, heading a westbound passenger out of Altoona station. The 12th St. Car Shops are in the background. July 25, 1952. View is off of 10th Avenue, near 15th St., Altoona." Photo by John Dziobko, Jr. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #5752, an AP-20 built by the American Locomotive Company in October of 1947, rated at 2,000 horsepower, later regeared and reclassified as an AFP-20, and retired in September of 1962. Note the Railroader on the right, waiting for the "snapper" to couple on. |