While on the subject of the ALCO PA series, I guess I'll put in my nickel:
ALCO built 247 PA series A units and 47 B units.
My favorite roads, the Missouri Pacific bought a total of 36 A units, (no
Bs), and the MKT bought 14 A units, (no Bs).
While the MKT usually ran AA's back to back, it wasn't unusual for the MP to
split back to back PA AAs by an EMD E7 B unit when more power was called
for.
My third favorite road, ATSF bought 28 A's and 16 B's. Santa Fe seemed to
favor PAs on some routes and F units on others. Trains nos 1 and 2, the
Chicago-Richmond, The San Francisco Chief, seemed to be primarily pulled by
PAs in the early 60s as well as Texas trains, the Houston-Clovis California
Special, and the Ft. Worth-San Angelo, The Angelo. In Steve Goen's book
"Santa Fe in the Lone Star State" there are many photographs of ABA ALCOs,
ABBBA F units, etc. One photo of #1 leaving Amarillo shows PAs in an AABBB
lashup while another shows PAs AAAA leading #1. For those of you that have
more locomotives than cars, another photo shows train #16
Galveston-Houston-Chicago, The Texas Chief, on the Galveston causeway in an
ABBB lashup with a single chair car behind it. (The rest of the train was
picked up in Houston.)
Billy Click
> Tom Baker sent this to me directly instead of the list:
>
> I have seen photos of ATSF mail trains #7 and #8 with the ALCO PA
> units in the ABBA formation. A few roads had PA units without the B
> units on the roster: NH [as previously mentioned], MKT, WABASH, and
> GM&O come to mind.
>
> Tom
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