Conrail is just over 2 months old as two Gs in Penn Central paint lead a southbound freight toward Baltimore and perhaps Potomac Yard, Virginia. Lead engine No. 4849 was built by PRR/GE in May, 1... (more)

Nearing the end of the line, the 4865 and the 4856 are on the side track with their pans down. The last GG1-powered freight will run in November, 1979, five months after this photo was taken. No... (more)

The now-preserved 4926 heels to the superelevated curve at Aberdeen, pulling a set of Budd Metroliner MU cars. By this date, the Metroliners were having mechanical issues, and the GG-1s were call... (more)

The westbound Broadway Limited rounds the big curve at Florin on its way to Harrisburg, where the G will be exchanged for diesels. The 927 was built by PRR/GE in March, 1943 as No. 4934, the fift... (more)

GG1 4872 leads an inbound commuter train past the former site of Waverly 5 Tower. The tracks are empty at the what had once been the very busy Waverly Yard.

Three well-worn Penn Central GG-1s lead two Deepwater Green bay-window cabooses west on a muggy Memorial Day weekend.

"Farewell to the GG-1" photo runby at the west end of Amtrak's Lancaster station. The trip was sponsored by the Lancaster Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, with the cooperat... (more)

A GG1 passes SA Tower for the final time with a revenue train. I wonder if the video that someone is taking from the rear cab is still around.

With a little over a year left in operation, GG1 4877 leads a commuter train off the Raritan Bay Swing Bridge.

The 4835 and 4868 are hauling an eastbound manifest through Columbia as their engineer yanks the horn cord for Walnut and Locust Streets. The silver piping in the foreground carried compressed ai... (more)

"Old Rivets" in her US Bicentennial dress is tripleheading eastbound, with all units front-pans up. (Standard PRR-PC-CR practice for Gs was to run with the rear pantographs up, in case ... (more)

The CR 4850 East is about to pass the Turkey Hill watchbox, on its way to Parkesburg and beyond. The 4850 was one of the last Conrail freight Gs with PRR-style yellow side numerals in Roman Serif... (more)

FINIS - The last few seconds of the GG-1's illustrious career are ticking off as 4879 leads NJT commuter train 3323 off of the Raritan Bay Swing Bridge at sunset. When 4879 stopped at the South A... (more)

The National Limited, on its way from New York to Harrisburg and Kansas City, pauses at the 1929-built PRR high-level platform. The center two tracks here were for through trains and freights, an... (more)

The 4913 and 4912 have just doubleheaded the westbound Broadway Limited into town and have been moved to the "motor track" to await tomorrow's run back to New York. Both locomotives wer... (more)