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    BCOL 4604 Canadian National Railway GE C40-8M - at Jasper, Alberta, Canada.
     
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    Dec. 17, 1941 Train 4605 Sunday only Local Phila to Perryville Picture taken just north of Oxford.
    Octoraro Branch, train #4605, engine #1592 (G5).
     
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    Steam locomotive NS 4606 in the Netherlands.
     
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    RP 1970 Pennsylvania Railroad #4607
     
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    B & 0 4608 - Date: 1/1/1973 - Location: Butler, PA
     
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    4609 standing in the electric siding at Broadmeadow Loco.
     
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    Date: 12/23/1989 Location: Riverdale, IL
    Locomotives: NS 4611(GP59)
     
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    GWR Pannier Tank Locomotive No 4612 arriving at Gotherington
    Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway during GWR175 Gala.
     
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    4613 at Morretes it's a small historic city of the Brazilian state of ParanĂ¡.
     
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    One of Minerva's 7mm Panniers, superbly weathered by James Harrison to represent 4614 in its last years working in the Forest of Dean
     
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    4615 at Eveleigh on 14th December 2002 after SETS Airport Colliery Tour.
    The "46 class" electric locomotives were ordered and designed for the electrification of the Sydney to Wallerawang route over the Blue Mountains in N.S.W.
    The motivation was an expected increase in the volume of coal to be shipped from the western coalfields beyond Lithgow, in the mid to late 1950s.
    This extra traffic would make the capacity of the then existing steam hauled double track Western Railway line inadequate.
    Electrification was determined to be the most cost effective method of increasing the capacity of this line.
    However the coal traffic estimates proved to be over optimistic and this, together with the location of a large existing steam locomotive depot at Lithgow, resulted in the electrification project being terminated at Bowenfels - on the outskirts of Lithgow.
     
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    Locomotive: PRR 4616(2-10-0)
    Date: 9/14/1956 - Location: Locust Gap, PA
     
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    GE Dash 9 Series - Loco 4617
     
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    Locomotives: PRR 4618(2-10-0)
    Date: 7/3/1955 - Location: Marysville, PA
     
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    Gtw #4619 built in 1954 at Battle Creek, Michigan
     
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    Pennsylvania Railroad - East Altoona 1956, unit 4620. Photo by Frank Zahn
     
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    This loco used to be an IR WDM-2.
    In 1969 this loco was appropriated by Pakistan and became part of the PR fleet.
    It was initially numbered 3770 and later renumbered to 4621 to better conform to PR's Alco number series although it's not exactly the same model as the other Alcos in that series.
    As late as 2000 this loco was hauling trains regularly and was homed at Rawalpindi. PR staff nicknamed the loco 'Indira Gandhi'.
    The loco's original IR road number is not known.
     
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    GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No 4622 awaits its fate at Swindon Works having been withdrawn June 1964
     
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    4623
    Built by Metropolitan-Vickers, Stockton-on-Tees, UK, 4623 entered service May 1, 1957
     
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