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Old Posted Nov 13, 2008, 3:31 AM
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A History of Pennsylvania's Railroad Industry

A History of Pennsylvania's Railroad Industry - The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is located across the street from the Strasburg Railroad. The museum preserves rare and valuable artifacts showing the evolution of America's railroad industry in spacious, well-lighted, climate-controlled buildings.





















Raymond Loewy-styled GG-1 locomotives were introduced in 1934, built until 1943 for a total of 139 units by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and served until 1983 between New York and Washington, D.C. and as far west as Harrisburg, well into the Amtrak era. The GG-1 drew 11,000 volts from overhead catenary and had 12 25-cycle motors giving it a total of 4,620 horsepower in continuous duty. It could easily exceed 100mph with a train of more than 14 cars. In a test run a GG-1 reached 135mph and was still accelerating preceptibly when the crew reached the end of specially-prepared track and had to slow down.

Locomotive 4935 was restored to the original Loewy-designed paint scheme in 1977 by Friends of the GG-1. In 1978 while waiting for a train home from Baltimore, I saw this locomotive stop there with a NY-Washington corridor train.







This E-44 locomotive was built for freight service on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1963 by General Electric. It could produce 4,400 horsepower in continuous service.













General Motors' Electro Motive Division (EMD) built 428 E7 locomotives for American railroads. Number 5901 is the only survivor of all those units. It is equipped with two 1,000 horsepower 12-cylinder diesel engines with an operational range from 275 to 800 rpm. Fully loaded and ready for service the locomotive weighed 315,000 pounds.





Shay geared locomotives were designed to negotiate heavy grades, sharp curves, and uneven track with heavy loads, and were used mainly on sometimes hastily-laid track in quarrying, mining and logging operations. Their maximum speed usually was something less than 15mph, but their tractive abilities were impressive.













A History of Pennsylvania's Railroad Industry - The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is located across the street from the Strasburg Railroad. The museum preserves rare and valuable artifacts showing the evolution of America's railroad industry in spacious, well-lighted, climate-controlled buildings.





















Raymond Loewy-styled GG-1 locomotives were introduced in 1934, built until 1943 for a total of 139 units by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and served until 1983 between New York and Washington, D.C. and as far west as Harrisburg, well into the Amtrak era. The GG-1 drew 11,000 volts from overhead catenary and had 12 25-cycle motors giving it a total of 4,620 horsepower in continuous duty. It could easily exceed 100mph with a train of more than 14 cars. In a test run a GG-1 reached 135mph and was still accelerating preceptibly when the crew reached the end of specially-prepared track and had to slow down.

Locomotive 4935 was restored to the original Loewy-designed paint scheme in 1977 by Friends of the GG-1. In 1978 while waiting for a train home from Baltimore, I saw this locomotive stop there with a NY-Washington corridor train.







This E-44 locomotive was built for freight service on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1963 by General Electric. It could produce 4,400 horsepower in continuous service.













General Motors' Electro Motive Division (EMD) built 428 E7 locomotives for American railroads. Number 5901 is the only survivor of all those units. It is equipped with two 1,000 horsepower 12-cylinder diesel engines with an operational range from 275 to 800 rpm. Fully loaded and ready for service the locomotive weighed 315,000 pounds.





Shay geared locomotives were designed to negotiate heavy grades, sharp curves, and uneven track with heavy loads, and were used mainly on sometimes hastily-laid track in quarrying, mining and logging operations. Their maximum speed usually was something less than 15mph, but their tractive abilities were impressive.











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That looks like fun.
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Awesome, I haven't been there since they expanded. Can you still walk outside to check out the yard and turntable?
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Interesting stuff. Thanks for the tour. Looks like a good museum.
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Awesome, I haven't been there since they expanded. Can you still walk outside to check out the yard and turntable?
Apparently so, at times. When I was there, the exit to the yard was roped off for some reason.

It's a magnificent museum, well laid out and well lighted with good sight lines and even benches where old farts (like me) can sit and take a break if we start to hyperventilate at the proximity of all that magnificent cast iron and shiny enameled sheet metal.

At least one example survives of most types of PRR motive power. Sadly, no example of the incredible 4-4-4-4 T-1 Duplex Drive locomotive survives. The last steam locomotives built by the PRR, there were 2 prototypes built in 1942 and 50 production models built in 1946.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:T1_color_photo.jpg

Some old-time PRR retirees used to tell of reaching 120mph with those beautiful beasts on the long, flat straightaways between Fort Wayne, Indiana and Crestline, Ohio.

Styling by Raymond Loewy.
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