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Thomas C. Ayers's Collection
 
5/4/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Model:Altoona GG1Built As:PRR 4919 (GG1)
Serial Number:4389Order No:
Frame Number:Westinghouse electrical gearBuilt:7/1942
Notes:PRR Class GG-1; blt 7/1942, saved, Roanoke VA
Other locos with this serial:  PRR 4919(GG1) AMTK 4917(GG1) AMTK 917(GG1) PC 917(GG1) PC 4919(GG1)
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PRR 4919, GG-1, 1952
Title:  PRR 4919, GG-1, 1952
Description:  Electrics. Here is a photo by an unidentified photographer that was taken in Baltimore, Maryland, in December of 1952. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #4919, a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built in Juniata during July of 1942 and rated at 4,620 horsepower. Looks like the steam-heat boiler has been fired up. (Gift from Brad Mann.)
Photo Date:  12/21/1952  Upload Date: 4/21/2021 11:57:26 AM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  PRR 4919(GG1)
Views:  427   Comments: 1
PRR 4919, GG-1, c.1956
Title:  PRR 4919, GG-1, c.1956
Description:  Blackhawk. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by Mayer Pearlman that was taken at the Passenger Station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, perhaps in 1956. Photo Caption: "Pennsylvania GG-1 No. 4919 with 'The Keystone' at Elizabeth, N.J." PRR engine #4919 is a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built in Juniata during July of 1942 and rated at 4,620 horsepower. "The Keystone" was put into service during the Summer of 1956. This photo comes from a color slide set entitled "Railroads Around New York" that's produced and distributed by Blackhawk Films of Davenport, Iowa (254-14).
Photo Date:  1/23/1956  Upload Date: 9/29/2018 12:30:42 AM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 4919(GG1)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
PRR Sunnyside Yard, #2 of 2, 1965
Title:  PRR Sunnyside Yard, #2 of 2, 1965
Description:  Sunnyside Yard. Here is the second of two original photos that I took while riding a Long Island Rail Road train from Penn Station, New York, to the World's Fair during August of 1965. Shown here in Sunnyside Yard are numerous passenger cars and two electric locomotives built in Juniata: a B-1 (0-C-0) switcher on the left and on the right GG-1 #4919 (2-C-C-2) built during July of 1942 and rated at 4,620 horsepower.
Photo Date:  8/15/1965  Upload Date: 9/10/2016 5:26:31 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 4919(GG1)
Views:  670   Comments: 0


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