Remarkable Engines: PRR 4846
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- As the 30th episode of Remarkable Engines, I decided to cover a somewhat well-known oddity rostered by the railroad I named my channel after, where a famous locomotive class was rebuilt for one of the most unusual purposes ever.
Credit for all photos used go to their original photographers.
All music used in this video is from the UA-cam Audio Library.
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Sources:
Anthony Zinskie: lahey_crockett.rrpicturearchives.net/
Chuck Zeiler: chuckzeiler.rrp...
Neil Stutzman: neil300.rrpictu...
McNee Barns - By SharonPapierdreams - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikime...
North of Wickenberg, AZ. 3751 is ready to cross under Highway 93 on May 18, 2012 - By Drew Jacksich from San Jose, California Republic - AZ 2012 2 204x4RP, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikime...
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Limited at Plymouth, Indiana. - By Lawrence and David Barera - Flickr: Plymouth, IN PRR Jul 1963 2-36, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikime...
Music Used in Order:
Jazz Mango - Joey Pecoraro
Strenuous Life - United States Marine Band
Quarter Mix - Freedom Trail Studio
Fingerprint - Mini Vandals
I SAWED THIS *locomotive* IN HALF
Yes, I know this is unoriginal lol
AND I REPAIRED IT WITH THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE
Hey you stole my joke!
Well i know i- fine, you can have it..
@@add2chart475 I actually did it 16 hours before all of you so technically-
_How did my comment get pinned_
Hmmmm yes the GG1 that became a shop swicher, although it was unfortunately scrapped, they did find some use for it after one end was damaged
Hey, that's my model I built at the 6:47 time stamp! I actually built 2. Both belong in other collections now.
That's a cool model! Thanks for sharing!
Too cool! Love GG1’s.
I haven't heard of this thingy until I found this video! Now, I know just how creative the PRR was in recycling 4846 into... a snow melter at Wilmington Shops.
Thanks for the video!
We really need to restore a GG1 to operation. Maybe once 5550 or 1361 is completed, that would be a good goal. I'd love to see one of the Amtrak GG1's running on the northeast corridor.
True, but I think there's a few reasons that prohibit a GG1 restoration, most notably now-outlawed materials that pose as health hazards for operating a GG1.
@@Pensyfan19 That and the fact that you’d basically have to give the GG1 being rebuilt to operate the internals of a modern engine due to changed voltages and safety systems along the Northeast and Keystone Corridors, and the purist crowd would have not a cow, but a straight up giraffe over that.
@@Pensyfan19 Sad but true. We would have to find something other than asbestos to use in the GG1's body, and we would have to find a different kind of oil to use in their main transformers that doesn't contain hazardous PCB's. Unfortunately, because of these factors, a GG1 probably won't ever operate again.
@@justahillbilly7777 That's another problem that would be very difficult to solve, and another reason why restoring a GG1 to operation probably won't ever happen, sadly.
I think Amtrak electric locos use a different operating voltage than the GG1, so I'm not sure where they could run it if they did restore one.
Broadway Limited needs to make a model of this.
Interesting that they found use for a locomotive after it getting cut in half.
The first Main Line Railroad electrification, was actually installed by the new york, new haven, in Hartford Railroad in 1918,.... Years prior to the Pennsylvania! The Actual inspiration for the GG -1,, was New Haven's EP-3Class.... After the P-5a debacle, the Pennsylvania Railroad borrowed one of New Haven's ep3s for an extended period of testing....... They liked it so much they duplicated it with a Raymond Loewy designed streamline body....
More exited than ever to see this
The Pennsy was not the first to electrify ; it was the New Haven in 1903.
Thanks for the correction.
I've heard that even the New Haven followed some small Midwestern railroad that pioneered the 11 KV @ 25 Hz electrification, but I can't find the reference for that. And that wasn't the first electrification in the US, either -- the B&O Belt Line tunnel was electrified in 1895, although this was with 675 V DC (initially with a strange overhead rail system, and then with an almost-conventional third rail). Around this time, the New Haven started experimenting with DC electrification on short segments. And then of course in between, you had the New York Central's DC electrification, starting in 1906.
Thanks for sharing this tidbit .
the GG1/2 its literally the electric version of a 10-wheeler steam locomotive.
I saw this "thing" in late August 1979 in Wilmington.
Super. I already called the Tyco suedo GG-1 a GG-1/2 because of the wheels, but this video takes it to a whole new level. 💙 T.E.N.
Edit: A GG-1 once accelerated a single passenger car and itself to sixty miles per hour in sixty seconds. 💙 T.E.N.
I SAWED THIS BOAT IN HALF
4859 is currently sitting in Harrisburg pa
I'm amazed Lionel or a hobbyists hasn't made this yet?
demand probably just isnt there
The video showed a picture of a custom model.
I have a 1947 Pennsylvania railroad spike it’s original and the j1a locomotives and the coal and freight passed over it
Wicked awesome 🚂❤️😎👍
That's a g1 now 😂
Nah its a G0.5
This was 1/2 way interesting.
The Pennsylvania RR should have merged with the Norfolk and Western and the New York Central should have merged with the Chesapeake and Ohio. The Penn Central Transportation Company was doomed from the start.
Santa Fe and Erie would have been a good transcon.
@@MilwaukeeF40C Santa Fe almost merged with the Erie Lackawanna. That one should have happened. The west end of the EL is either completely gone or part of a hiking biking trail.
I gave 5his locomotive the nickname, cab boi
I LIKE TRAINS 🚄!
Where can I find that kitbash gg1. Wondering if I can make one or 3D print it so I can make one for HO scale.
The merger was a catastrophe for both.
Finally, the GG0.5
GG1 divided by 2 = GG0.5
Damn I kinda want to make one of these in o scale. But that would be so friggin expensive
I'd prefer it in HO scale and made from brass - unless it was produced in proto:48 and also in brass. 😊
I dont know about anyone else but i always called that the half loco
One hafe of a GG1 is a discras to the complete. In my opinion.
Amazing. This is first I've ever seen of that thing. Great channel.
Its the GG1/2
Nice video pansy fan 19 also is it OK if I do a video on this engine as well
Usually I cover engines that don't have a video on them already, but I'm not sure if there's anything else on this engine that I didn't already include here since it's already little known, so I'm not sure if making a video on the engine would do you any good.
Ok
ah yes
G1
what a odd locomotive lol
That looks like something I would make in photoshop
GG 1.5
GG0
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I SAWED THIS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE IN HALF
should have named it 'Eric' Eric the half a G.... for us brits who know Monty Python humour....
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Lol dear God, coal and natty gas fired power plants are not green, they're just not in your backyard.