This image defines the word 'sad'. It's difficult to imagine that one of the most popular electric locomotives to appear on the PRR's roster should end up in this condition. Unfortunately, there are several GG1's still in existence that share a similar un-kept look.
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This is an aspect of railroading I have never understood. Locomotives and rolling stock just left somewhere sometimes for years. I would guess that somebody has already likely stripped any wiring out of it for the copper. It looks like it has been vandalized already. Also I would think stuff like this is dangerous, kids might get in it and get hurt. I know we don't like to see stuff scrapped, but if they aren't going to even cosmetically restore it then maybe they should.
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It's amazing - stunning, to think that the PRR, or was it PC /Conrail that would offer this and the other GG1 to a group with so little to offer in terms of preservation and display. Wasn't one of these GG1's going to the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit?
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One thing I've never understood is GG1/2s. They make no sense!
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Our Heritage scene is put to shame by Great Britain's. It really does sadden me. Their engines are treated with celebrity status. Ours sit rusting about.
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This locomotive wasn't given to an organization without the resources to restore it, it was purchased off the scrap line decades ago by people with good intentions. Shall we go back in time and let it be cut up instead?
If you haven't noticed, times are tough and there are other projects that take priority over yet another restored GG1.
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I wonder why no Amtrak F40PHs have been restored and are operating. All I hear about are steam restorations.
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It could be realy intresting (at least for me) to know the history behind this sad (but good) image. When they made the last trip? when they was let there?...
There's a lot of history on this photo, I would love to learn it.
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| Posted by xBNSFer on October 24, 2023 | |
Amtrak GG1 4917 built for the Pennsylvania Railroad (number 4919) in July, 1942 during the Second World War. Ownership went to Penn Central, then to Conrail, then to Amtrak, then acquired by a historical society without the resources for a restoration to date.
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