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E7 No. 5879 had the honors of pulling the first regularly scheduled Pennsy diesel run on the joint PRR-Jersey Central New York & Long Branch in April 1956. Prior to this, K4s Pacifics handled PRR trains on the NY&LB.
Don Wood photo