The MIDDAY CONGRESSIONAL behind GG1 4884 rushes west as a New York bound multiple unit train sits at Elizabeth. Someone remarked that this was the "Big Boy " GG1 with number 4884. I dropped my Pan Am camera bag to run down the platform to get this shot of the fast-moving express to Washington, DC.
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The Pennsy was one of the biggest passenger carriers in the United States, but its fortunes waned and it lost business to the highways and skies, and stumbled toward its ill-fated merger with the New York Central.