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CR GG1 #4885
Title:  CR GG1 #4885
Description:  Built by the PRR Altoona shops and Westinghouse in March of 1939, this once powerful and prestigious locomotive now sits in a scrap line at the Harrisburg, PA, yard after dismissal from service in February of 1980. Note the line of GG1's farther back as well. Conrail conductor Ken Taylor took this color slide several years later of the loco still awaiting the scrappeer's torch.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 5/4/2020 5:00:38 AM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4885(GG1)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
CR GG1 #4885
Title:  CR GG1 #4885
Description:  A warm glow surrounds this once powerful GG1 locoomotive that was dismissed from service in February of 1980. Conrail conductor Ken Taylor captured this sad moment two years later. The loco, built by PRR Altoona and Westinghouse in March of 1939, served PRR, PC and CR for 41 years.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 5/4/2020 5:00:44 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4885(GG1)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4886
Title:  CR GG1 4886
Description:  CR GG-1 4886 waits for assignment at the Enola engine terminal in May, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/7/1977  Upload Date: 9/6/2015 9:28:18 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4886(GG1)
Views:  213   Comments: 3
CR 4886 eastbound at CRES
Title:  CR 4886 eastbound at CRES
Description:  Heading down the "Port Road"
Photo Date:  3/3/1979  Upload Date: 1/16/2013 9:09:08 PM
Location:  Washington Boro, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4886(GG1)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
A pair of GG1s east at CRES Interlocking
Title:  A pair of GG1s east at CRES Interlocking
Description:  About to pass the last of the winter ice-jam; 4886 in the lead. Note grade-separation- A&S above the C&PD
Photo Date:  3/3/1979  Upload Date: 3/22/2013 4:33:43 PM
Location:  Washington Boro, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4886(GG1)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
CR 4886
Title:  CR 4886
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/14/2011 7:40:23 AM
Location:  Arlington, VA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4886(GG1)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4887
Title:  CR GG1 4887
Description:  CR GG1 4887 waits for assignment late in the day at Morrisville in March 1977.
Photo Date:  3/26/1977  Upload Date: 5/22/2015 10:04:11 AM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
Rare E44-GG1 lashup under threatening skies
Title:  Rare E44-GG1 lashup under threatening skies
Description:  Westbound, just past Bank Street crossing
Photo Date:  7/12/1978  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 7:29:40 PM
Location:  Marietta, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  223   Comments: 0
E44s and GG1s MUed
Title:  E44s and GG1s MUed
Description:  Downgrade toward Columbia, through the weeds
Photo Date:  7/12/1978  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 7:28:27 PM
Location:  Mountville, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  206   Comments: 0
Northbound New Jersey Department of Transportation Commuter Train led by Conrail GE GG1 No. 4887
Title:  Northbound New Jersey Department of Transportation Commuter Train led by Conrail GE GG1 No. 4887
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/1978  Upload Date: 4/22/2007 8:37:46 AM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
CR 4887 in scrap line
Title:  CR 4887 in scrap line
Description:  This engine often pulled the Broadway Limited to Harrisburg in the mid-70s
Photo Date:  9/12/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2013 5:47:06 PM
Location:  Rutherford, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  197   Comments: 0
CR GG1 #4887
Title:  CR GG1 #4887
Description:  Conrail conductor Ken Taylor caught this massive GG1 sitting in the scrap line at the Enola, PA, yard. Built by PRR Altoona shops and GE in April of 1939, the loco pulled many a passenger car and later many freight cars in its 41 years of service to the Pennsylvania RR, Penn Central and finally Conrail before retirement in February of 1980.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 5/4/2020 5:00:50 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4887
Title:  CR GG1 4887
Description:  Two great passenger carriers pass at Newark. One passes in the air, and one that pulled tens of thousands in the past rolls to the scrapper.
Photo Date:  2/15/1982  Upload Date: 6/25/2016 8:14:48 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  140   Comments: 2
CR GG1s 4864 and 4887
Title:  CR GG1s 4864 and 4887
Description:  A pair of CR GG1's roll to scrap at Newark in February, 1982
Photo Date:  2/15/1982  Upload Date: 6/25/2016 8:16:16 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4887(GG1)
Views:  120   Comments: 1
CR 4889 East, with an ore train
Title:  CR 4889 East, with an ore train
Description:  Coming off the A&S at CP PARK
Photo Date:  8/29/1976  Upload Date: 7/23/2013 8:47:34 PM
Location:  Parkesburg, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  541   Comments: 1
CR 4889
Title:  CR 4889
Description:  CR 4889 is out from under the wire along with several other GG1s.
Photo Date:  8/31/1976  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 8:12:07 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4889
Title:  CR GG1 4889
Description:  CR GG-1 4889 leads 4825, 4853, and 4894 on a fast freight on the NE Corridor at Morrisville in March, 1977.
Photo Date:  3/26/1977  Upload Date: 4/16/2015 9:19:11 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
PC GP30 2239
Title:  PC GP30 2239
Description:  With Conrail's first birthday a few weeks prior, my good friend captured a pair of GG1s (CR 4889 runs 2nd) and still-PC GP30 2239 on the Trenton Cutoff. Photo by permission.
Photo Date:  4/19/1977  Upload Date: 7/18/2015 5:48:47 PM
Location:  Willow Grove, PA
Author:  Andrew J. Erlichman
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  PC 2239(GP30) CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  408   Comments: 0
CR 4889
Title:  CR 4889
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/14/2011 7:41:22 AM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1) CR 4808(GG1) AMTK 4934(GG1) AMTK 4895(GG1) AMTK 142(RS3)
Views:  1071   Comments: 0
CR 4889 along Manor Siding
Title:  CR 4889 along Manor Siding
Description:  2nd unit, with 4859 in the lead, eastbound
Photo Date:  6/13/1978  Upload Date: 9/9/2013 7:53:48 PM
Location:  Columbia, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  220   Comments: 1
CR 4889
Title:  CR 4889
Description:  Being led by CR 4862.
Photo Date:  4/29/1979  Upload Date: 4/28/2010 4:21:53 PM
Location:  Steelton, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4889
Title:  CR GG1 4889
Description:  CR GG1 4891 leads 4867 and 4889 into Morrisville yard with mixed freight in June, 1979.
Photo Date:  6/11/1979  Upload Date: 5/27/2015 7:00:20 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  132   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4889
Title:  CR GG1 4889
Description:  CR GG1 4891 leads 4867 and 4889 into Morrisville yard with mixed freight in June, 1979.
Photo Date:  6/11/1979  Upload Date: 5/27/2015 7:06:30 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
CR 4889 in scrap line
Title:  CR 4889 in scrap line
Description:  This engine often pulled the National Limited to Harrisburg in the mid-70s
Photo Date:  9/12/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2013 5:48:07 PM
Location:  Rutherford, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4889(GG1)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
GG1 4891
Title:  GG1 4891
Description:  GG1 4891 still with its PRR stripes, which, by this time was two railroads ago. Orangeville enginehouse, Baltimore.
Photo Date:  3/1/1977  Upload Date: 4/14/2010 8:45:04 PM
Location:  Orangeville, MD
Author:  George L. Pitz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
CR 4891
Title:  CR 4891
Description:  Wearing its PRR Brunswick Green and Dulux GG1 4891 leads Blue 4800 on SEWA-7 holding for traffic at Perryville.
Photo Date:  5/20/1978  Upload Date: 4/18/2005 8:22:59 PM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1) CR 4800(GG1)
Views:  1919   Comments: 1
CR 4891
Title:  CR 4891
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/29/1978  Upload Date: 6/6/2010 9:08:45 AM
Location:  Kearny, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1)
Views:  235   Comments: 1
CR GG1 4891
Title:  CR GG1 4891
Description:  A trio of GG1s, led by 4891, enter Morrisville yard with mixed freight in June, 1979.
Photo Date:  6/11/1979  Upload Date: 5/27/2015 6:56:39 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
CR 4891
Title:  CR 4891
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1981  Upload Date: 10/15/2008 10:32:30 PM
Location:  Rutherford, NJ
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
CR 4891, still with a PRR yellow stripe & yellow numerals
Title:  CR 4891, still with a PRR yellow stripe & yellow numerals
Description:  Scrap line, Rutherford Yard
Photo Date:  9/12/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2013 5:49:00 PM
Location:  Rutherford, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
CR 4891 in Rutherford scrap line, leading the 4822 & sisters
Title:  CR 4891 in Rutherford scrap line, leading the 4822 & sisters
Description:  Old Reading RR coal dock in background
Photo Date:  9/12/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2013 5:50:12 PM
Location:  Rutherford, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1)
Views:  251   Comments: 1
CR GG1 #4891
Title:  CR GG1 #4891
Description:  Still proudly displaying one of the stripe patterns that made the GG1's so distinctive is Conrail #4891. The loco was built by Pennsylvania Altoona shops and Westinghouse in April of 1940 and served the PRR as well as PC and CR until retirement 40 years later in February of 1980. Conrail conductor Ken Taylor captured this beautiful but sad moment in its history.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 5/4/2020 5:01:04 AM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4891(GG1)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
CR 4894 (RF)
Title:  CR 4894 (RF)
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/23/2007 6:06:49 AM
Location:  Kearny, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  476   Comments: 1
Such a little insignia
Title:  Such a little insignia
Description:  Conrail GG1 4894 with CR insignia dwarfed by the size of the flank of the locomotive
Photo Date:  3/1/1977  Upload Date: 9/25/2010 9:07:06 AM
Location:  Orangeville, MD
Author:  George L. Pitz
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4894
Title:  CR GG1 4894
Description:  CR 4894 is the last in a quartet of GG1’s pulling away on the Northeast Corridor at Morrisville in March, 1977.
Photo Date:  3/26/1977  Upload Date: 4/16/2015 9:10:54 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
CR 4894 West
Title:  CR 4894 West
Description:  Along Front Street with non-rusty cat poles!
Photo Date:  4/16/1977  Upload Date: 3/21/2013 5:08:01 PM
Location:  Marietta, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  316   Comments: 1
CR 4894
Title:  CR 4894
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/13/2011 11:01:10 PM
Location:  Baltimore Penn Station, MD
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
CR 4894
Title:  CR 4894
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/13/2011 10:59:26 PM
Location:  Baltimore Penn Station, MD
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
CR 1975
Title:  CR 1975
Description:  EMDX 1975
Photo Date:  8/26/1978  Upload Date: 2/6/2017 8:57:29 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  EMDX 1975(GM6C) CR 4894(GG1) CR 4458(E44)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
CR 4894
Title:  CR 4894
Description:  eastbound on track 2
Photo Date:  3/21/1979  Upload Date: 1/6/2020 4:23:01 PM
Location:  Radnor, PA
Author:  Bob Vogel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  152   Comments: 1
CR E33 4607
Title:  CR E33 4607
Description:  Conrail E33 4607 at Wilmington, Delaware on an unknown day in May 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  5/1/1979  Upload Date: 2/24/2014 1:56:43 PM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4607(E33) CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  410   Comments: 0
As the curtain falls, another view
Title:  As the curtain falls, another view
Description:  Retired CR GG1's at Edgemoor, DE.
Photo Date:  3/1/1981  Upload Date: 9/30/2010 7:58:58 PM
Location:  Edgemoor, DE
Author:  George L. Pitz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
And the curtain falls
Title:  And the curtain falls
Description:  Retired CR GG1's wait their fate at Edgemoor, DE.
Photo Date:  3/1/1981  Upload Date: 9/30/2010 7:58:48 PM
Location:  Edgemoor, DE
Author:  George L. Pitz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
CR 4894 & 4828 in scrap line
Title:  CR 4894 & 4828 in scrap line
Description:  At Rutherford Yard
Photo Date:  9/12/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2013 5:51:24 PM
Location:  Rutherford, PA
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
CR GG1 #4894
Title:  CR GG1 #4894
Description:  After almost 40 years of service, this GG1 was retired from active duty in February of 1980 and shoved into the scrap line at Enola, PA. Built by PRR Altoona shops and GE in April of 1940, the loco served the Pennsylvania RR, Penn Central and finally Conrail before dismissal. Conrail conductor Ken Taylor documented in status in this slide two years after its retirement.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 5/4/2020 5:01:14 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4894(GG1)
Views:  223   Comments: 1
CR 4937
Title:  CR 4937
Description:  Conrail TV-4 crosses over to track 1 as a Metroliner heads to Trenton.
Photo Date:  12/18/1976  Upload Date: 2/20/2005 10:24:34 PM
Location:  Monmouth Junction, NJ
Author:  John C Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4937(GG1) CR 4897(GG1)
Views:  1481   Comments: 0
CR GG1 4898
Title:  CR GG1 4898
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1977  Upload Date: 11/23/2008 6:43:53 AM
Location:  Kearny, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4898(GG1)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
CR 4898
Title:  CR 4898
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 6/13/2011 10:56:55 PM
Location:  Baltimore Penn Station, MD
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4898(GG1)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
CR 4898
Title:  CR 4898
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 6/13/2011 10:55:27 PM
Location:  Baltimore Penn Station, MD
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4898(GG1)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
AMTK GG1 4934
Title:  AMTK GG1 4934
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/27/2003  Upload Date: 5/1/2010 10:33:01 PM
Location:  Cooperstown Junction, NY
Author:  Matt Adams
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 4934(GG1) PC 4917(GG1) CR 4917(GG1)
Views:  1127   Comments: 0


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