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on: 06-30-2005
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I didn't find these, but as a guy who likes old abandoned stuff, here are a pair of GG1 electric locomotives,
Built in 1935 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, they stayed in service until 1983!
Serving under Pensy, then Penn Central, then Amtrak, before finaly being retired and scrapped, only about 12 still survive (including these 2) out of an estimated 135 that were built between 35' and 41' |
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6-30-2005 @ 07:10:17 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Top speed was 110 miles an hour...
Only 3 or 4 of the survivors actualy still run, these ones are likley dead due to corrosion of the transformers
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6-30-2005 @ 08:36:55 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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They really are quite impressive machines, 4,600 HP producing between 70,000 and 75,000 tons of tractive effort. The transformer alone weighed 15 tons, and each cost a quarter of a million dollars to build
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6-30-2005 @ 08:38:28 PM |
| Posted By : kstagger |
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awesome - I love 20s-40s technology, it's so uhm primitive, but oh so well engineered.
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6-30-2005 @ 08:42:31 PM |
| Posted By : stang392 |
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#4, I take it thats in 30s dollars, if so holy shit!!
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6-30-2005 @ 08:50:04 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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A lucky few still remain in museums, but none are known to run anymore, this picture taken in ~1988 shows one of the last ones on the tracks
http://www.spikesys.com/Bin/GG1/4859.jpg
The extreme long lenght of the engines eventualy caused frame cracks that forced most into retirement after 40 years of service
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7-01-2005 @ 01:25:11 AM |
| Posted By : ambientFLIER |
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i would be cautious about driving around in a gigantic transformer on wheels
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12-09-2013 @ 10:45:32 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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Cool streamlined design....very art deco.
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| #14 |
12-09-2013 @ 11:24:05 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Another consideration for their ultimate fate is that in the early to mid 1970's, American railroads, especially in the NE were in sharp decline, a combination of poor economy, antiquated regulations (dating to the 19th century in some cases), bad union contracts and the dismantling/downsizing of traditionally railroad-friendly industries like steel, automaking and coal. A substantial number of NE railroads had electrified lines that they, in a short-sighted bid to stay afloat, tore down and sold the copper for scrap to make a fast buck. As a result, most of the tracks these used to use are now non-electrified, and there simply isn't anywhere you COULD run em' if you wanted to.
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