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PRR’s first passenger diesel

By Angela Cotey | March 19, 2016

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

Pennsylvania E7A 5901, one of the units constituting the big road’s first passenger diesel, teams up with an E7B and another E7A on a “Blue Ribbon” limited departing Chicago. This historic unit is preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
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