Reply to "Where GG1's east coast only?"

Nick ChillianisOGR Forum Member

Stuart posted:
GG1's ran on New Haven track prior to the Penn Central Merger. Recall the wreck of the Congressional in 1953. The GG1 picked up the train in New Haven for the run to DC.
Stuart

Never in regular service.

A New Haven electric handled the train from New Haven to Penn Station, where GG1 4876 took over. The number of the NH unit is lost to history but it would have been one of the road's EP-4 streamliners or possibly one of the similar looking EF-3b units which were built as freight motors but later received steam generators for passenger work on trains to and from Penn Station.

The EP-4 had third rail gear and could operate on either 11000 volt catenary or 600 volt DC third rail. The EF-3b was an AC only machine.

FYI: It was the overnight Federal Express from Boston that wrecked in DC, not the Congressional.

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