Did the prr ever use f-3's to pull the Broadway Limited?
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Doubt it. Weren't they freight units?
Jon 
What diesel locos were used besides the e-8?
Broadway? PRR EP20 (E7) and at least once, believe it or not, the Baldwin
Centipedes! It's possible that other minority builder units may have locked
knuckles with the B'way, but this was not regular practice.
According to Don Ball's "The Pennsylvania Railroad, 1940's-1950's": PRR had two A-B-A sets of EFP-15 (F-7 A-B-A to a non-PRR person) dual service engines in the tuscan 5 stripe passenger livery. The book doesn't note that they were ever used much (if at all) in passenger service and the one photo in the book has one of them in the consist of a freight train.
I'll never say never, but I'd have serious doubts that the PRR ever used even these F-7's on the Broadway. Since the Broadway was the hottest long distance name train on the Pennsylvania, I'd surmise it had first dibs on the best passenger power available.
Curt
I would say the Alco PA's, EMD E7/8. Baldwins possibility as a helper on Horseshoe!
"The most common diesel motive power for the Broadway Limited from the late 1940s to the 1960s was the EMD E7 and its later variant, the E8." Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited, Joe Welsh, 2006.
As I recall, this book doesn't mention or show any other diesels. GG1 electrics for NY of course.
After 1948, the Penn would have never assigned any non-GM passenger units
to the B'way, unless it was a major emergency. The FP7 types were primarily
used as freight power, even the tuscan red ABA set. The Alco APS24ms units
provided help on the PGH div. for all passengers, which was the only way you'd
get an Alco on the front of 29.
The APS24ms was the ALCO DL600 model: PRR's code meant ALCO Passenger Switcher, 2,400 hp, multiple unit control and equipped with a steam generator
The Broadway used E7, E8, Centipede and the Alco PA in a pinch once or twice as diesel power. Never a FP7 or other diesels. In the early days of PRR dieselization (1948-1950) if a diesel failed (read: Baldwin) replacement power was more often than not a K4 or two.
