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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:Altoona GG1Built As:PRR 4855 (GG1)
Serial Number:4310Order No:
Frame Number:GE electrical gearBuilt:6/1935
Notes:PRR Class GG-1; blt 6/1935, scrapped
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 4855(GG1) PC 4855(GG1) CR 4855(GG1)
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"Pennsy's Steel Thunderbolts," Page 56, 1947
Title:  "Pennsy's Steel Thunderbolts," Page 56, 1947
Description:  Here is page five of a six-page camera study by Frank Clodfelter entitled "Pennsy's Steel Thunderbolts." It was published originally in the December 1947 issue of "Railroad" magazine, page 56. Top Photo Caption: "Number 4855 thunders beneath overpass south of Baltimore station." Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #4855, a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built in Juniata during June of 1935 and rated at 4,620 horsepower.
Photo Date:  12/1/1947  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 12:02:47 AM
Location:  Baltimore Penn Stati, MD
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge,Signal,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 4855(GG1)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
Locomotive Ready Tracks, 1965
Title:  Locomotive Ready Tracks, 1965
Description:  WIL-ALT-65. Here is an original photo that I took while riding in a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train from Wilmington to North Philadelphia during August of 1965. Shown here are the old roundhouse, turntablX, and locomotive ready tracks. Also visible is PRR electric engine #4855, a GG-1 built in Juniata during June of 1935.
Photo Date:  8/15/1965  Upload Date: 9/2/2016 1:42:59 AM
Location:  Edgemoor, DE
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PRR 4855(GG1)
Views:  693   Comments: 2
PC 24009
Title:  PC 24009
Description:  G at Waverly.
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 4/18/2005 6:48:33 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Richard Hart
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PRR 4855(GG1)
Views:  1677   Comments: 1


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