Found an image online today, but was unable to copy it to here, it is half of a GG1.
The unit is presumably some type of switcher, the back of the body has sheet metal in place with a port hole and it has a rear coupler.
Anyone know anymore about such units? There were no markings.
I wonder if it is PC or Amtrak.
When you say it’s “half of a GG1”, do you mean like the front half looks like a GG1 and the rear half looks like something else, or do you mean it looks like a GG1 only 1/2 as big? PRR did have some other, smaller electrics that might be what you’re seeing if the latter.
BTW even if you can’t post the picture here, you can post a link to the page on the website where the image is so we can look at it.
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That engine was involved in a wreck and was salvaged for snow-clearing duty.
Stix,
It was a GG1 that was damagd and they cut the unit in half and blanked off the area where they cut it. I don’t remember the number. They used it as a maintenance unit for clearing yards as a snow blower or something like that.
oldline1
Note the plenum ending close to the tracks - this was used to keep the track clear around the Wilmington shop facility, and I believe it ‘doubled’ as a Wilmington shop switcher.
Comment in Trains Magazine in the '60s when this was first reported: “wouldn’t two of these make a great engine?”
The “half GG1” was a snow blower for use around the Wilmington Shops. It was not capable of moving itself, but had to be shoved around by an engine.
Interesting. Thanks for the info. I wondered what the plenum was for. Follow up question, what generated the heat to melt snow? If it was towed around then presumably no overhead wires.
The half G was the 4846 in it’s original life. The conversion was done in the PC era. It was used as a snow blower to clear out turnouts at Edgemoor Yard in Wilmington Del. – Ken
It didn’t need any heat as it was not meant to melt snow - just blow it off the track. It had a pantograph to supply power to run the blower and could be used only under catenary. Most (but not all) of the track in the shop yard was wired.
I like the extended vision cab as in this shot
http://sbiii.com/b-uattwn/iii3/rrpix/gg1_4846.jpg
I bet some Pennsy engineers wished the full GG1s had had that particular feature!
Dave Nelson