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Thomas C. Ayers's Collection
 
6/16/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:GE GG1Built As:PRR 4800 (GG1)
Serial Number:11646Order No:
Frame Number:Built:8/1934
Notes:CR Class GG-1; ex-PC, Exx-PRR
Other locos with this serial:  PC 4800(GG1) CR 4800(GG1) PRR 4800(GG1)
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CR 4800, GG-1, 1976
Title:  CR 4800, GG-1, 1976
Description:  Old Rivets. Here is a postal card entitled "'Ol' Rivets' gussied-up for Bicentennial." No Postmark. Caption On Reverse: "Called 'Ol' Rivets' because she was the first GG-1 built by the Pennsylvania RR, and the only one with riveted seams. Designer Raymond Loewy called for smooth, welded seams in the subsequent 139 copies. This view is from 1976. She now resides, wearing dignified vintage paint, in a proper museum." The photographer is not identified. #4800 is a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built by General Electric as number "4899" during August of 1934, rated at 4,620 horsepower, renumbered "4800" in November of 1934, and now at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Photo Date:  7/4/1976  Upload Date: 9/28/2018 2:39:14 PM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4800(GG1)
Views:  950   Comments: 0
CR 4800, GG-1, 1977
Title:  CR 4800, GG-1, 1977
Description:  Old Rivets. Here is an original 35mm color slide showing Conrail engine #4800, a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built by General Electric for the Pennsylvania Railroad as number "4899" during August of 1934, rated at 4,620 horsepower, renumbered "4800" in November of 1934, owned successively by Penn Central and Conrail, and presently on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The photographer's name, the exact date, and the location are not recorded.
Photo Date:  2/2/1977  Upload Date: 7/21/2021 8:18:03 AM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4800(GG1)
Views:  683   Comments: 0
CR 4800, GG-1, 1980
Title:  CR 4800, GG-1, 1980
Description:  Old Rivets. Here is an original 35mm color slide that was taken at Conrail's Electric Locomotive Shops in Wilmington, Delaware. Shown here is CR engine #4800, a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built by General Electric for the Pennsylvania Railroad as number "4899" during August of 1934, rated at 4,620 horsepower, renumbered "4800" in November of 1934, owned successively by Penn Central and Conrail, and presently on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The photographer's name and the exact date are not recorded.
Photo Date:  7/4/1980  Upload Date: 7/21/2021 8:19:55 AM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4800(GG1)
Views:  465   Comments: 0
CR 4800, GG-1, c. 1980
Title:  CR 4800, GG-1, c. 1980
Description:  Old Rivets. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by Vernon Ryder, Jr. Shown here is Conrail engine #4800, a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built by General Electric for the Pennsylvania Railroad as number "4899" during August of 1934, rated at 4,620 horsepower, renumbered "4800" in November of 1934, owned successively by Penn Central and Conrail, and presently on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The date and the location are not recorded. ("LouisFols"; #7 of 12)
Photo Date:  8/15/1980  Upload Date: 7/1/2019 3:57:15 PM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4800(GG1)
Views:  510   Comments: 1
CR 4800, GG-1, c. 1981
Title:  CR 4800, GG-1, c. 1981
Description:  Old Rivets. Here is an original 35mm color slide showing Conrail engine #4800, a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built by General Electric for the Pennsylvania Railroad as number "4899" during August of 1934, rated at 4,620 horsepower, renumbered "4800" in November of 1934, owned successively by Penn Central and Conrail, and presently on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The photographer's name and the exact date are not recorded.
Photo Date:  5/5/1981  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 9:19:07 AM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4800(GG1)
Views:  696   Comments: 0


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