So was it that PRR had gone pro-electrification by the early 1900s for all the eastern traffic volume and Pennsylvania station? And so since they had plans to electrify further west, why develop that next gen steam (4-8-4s etc) of the mid-late 1920s? But then the depression hit, volume and available capital must've declined putting the catenary going west on hold. Then the war, which wore out that already-tired, old steam fleet that was probabl supposed to have been replaced by GG1s and P5s (or whatever would've followed). But by this time, it became clear it was not economical to build all that electrical infrastructure when EMD had figured out how to simply put a small power plant on the electric locomotive's back. Even though I never heard about it being thought of further than Pittsburgh, the idea off GG1s stretching out to Chicago is pretty badass. Would they have had to adhere to division points, or go straight through? Could they have gotten The Broadway down to maybe, 14 hours?!
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