Remarkable Engines: PRR 4846

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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 RU-vid Audio Library.
Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the copyright act 1976: allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Sources:
Anthony Zinskie: lahey_crockett.rrpicturearchives.net/
Chuck Zeiler: chuckzeiler.rrpicturearchives....
Neil Stutzman: neil300.rrpicturearchives.net/
McNee Barns - By SharonPapierdreams - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Music Used in Order:
Jazz Mango - Joey Pecoraro
Strenuous Life - United States Marine Band
Quarter Mix - Freedom Trail Studio
Fingerprint - Mini Vandals

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18 авг 2022

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Комментарии : 79

@844SteamFan Год назад

I SAWED THIS *locomotive* IN HALF Yes, I know this is unoriginal lol

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Год назад

AND I REPAIRED IT WITH THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE

@add2chart475 Год назад

Hey you stole my joke!

@add2chart475 Год назад

Well i know i- fine, you can have it..

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Год назад

@@add2chart475 I actually did it 16 hours before all of you so technically-

@844SteamFan Год назад

_How did my comment get pinned_

@The_Canadian_Railfan Год назад

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

@garym1718 Год назад

Hey, that's my model I built at the 6:47 time stamp! I actually built 2. Both belong in other collections now.

@SleepTrain456 7 месяцев назад

That's a cool model! Thanks for sharing!

@kenshores9900 Год назад

Too cool! Love GG1’s.

@SleepTrain456 7 месяцев назад

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!

@seabeeusn76 11 месяцев назад

Broadway Limited needs to make a model of this.

@kevinwynott7755 Год назад

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....

@Maunico0809 Год назад

Interesting that they found use for a locomotive after it getting cut in half.

@Ya_boi_nathaniel Год назад

More exited than ever to see this

@TrainsAreReallyCool Год назад

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.

@Pensyfan19 Год назад

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.

@justahillbilly7777 Год назад

@@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.

@TrainsAreReallyCool Год назад

@@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.

@TrainsAreReallyCool Год назад

@@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.

@groverfan1389 Год назад

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.

@johncooney654 Год назад

The Pennsy was not the first to electrify ; it was the New Haven in 1903.

@Pensyfan19 Год назад

Thanks for the correction.

@Lucius_Chiaraviglio Год назад

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.

@tracynation2820 Год назад

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.

@tracynation2820 Год назад

Edit: A GG-1 once accelerated a single passenger car and itself to sixty miles per hour in sixty seconds. 💙 T.E.N.

@radarhec Год назад

Thanks for sharing this tidbit .

@jeffreymcfadden9403 11 месяцев назад

I saw this "thing" in late August 1979 in Wilmington.

@phroogo... Год назад

the GG1/2 its literally the electric version of a 10-wheeler steam locomotive.

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Год назад

I SAWED THIS BOAT IN HALF

@carltonkeys6205 9 месяцев назад

4859 is currently sitting in Harrisburg pa

@mr.shadestrains6033 Год назад

Wicked awesome 🚂❤️😎👍

@JerzeyBoy Год назад

I'm amazed Lionel or a hobbyists hasn't made this yet?

@buildintotrains 11 месяцев назад

demand probably just isnt there

@MilwaukeeF40C 8 месяцев назад

The video showed a picture of a custom model.

@hartmutlorentzen9659 2 месяца назад

The merger was a catastrophe for both.

@DocHammer-ep5zh Год назад

I LIKE TRAINS 🚄!

@CPKCRAILROAD Год назад

I have a 1947 Pennsylvania railroad spike it’s original and the j1a locomotives and the coal and freight passed over it

@jeromelandesman Год назад

This was 1/2 way interesting.

@NW-gi1cp Год назад

That's a g1 now 😂

@finndahuman57 Год назад

Nah its a G0.5

@chicagolandrailroader Год назад

Damn I kinda want to make one of these in o scale. But that would be so friggin expensive

@everettthepetractionguy4222 Год назад

I'd prefer it in HO scale and made from brass - unless it was produced in proto:48 and also in brass. 😊

@BushForLife1946 Год назад

I gave 5his locomotive the nickname, cab boi

@juliandasilva1001 Год назад

Finally, the GG0.5

@InventorZahran Год назад

GG1 divided by 2 = GG0.5

@stoveapple Год назад

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.

@paulmishler402 Год назад

I dont know about anyone else but i always called that the half loco

@playerjacob18 Год назад

One hafe of a GG1 is a discras to the complete. In my opinion.

@bcrail_productions Год назад

Nice video pansy fan 19 also is it OK if I do a video on this engine as well

@Pensyfan19 Год назад

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.

@bcrail_productions Год назад

@jamielacourse7578 Год назад

Amazing. This is first I've ever seen of that thing. Great channel.

@4-8-4Northern Год назад

Its the GG1/2

@jade-a7990 Год назад

what a odd locomotive lol

@griffinrails Год назад

ah yes G1

@LemonSpacebirb Год назад

That looks like something I would make in photoshop

@armandoperez7967 11 месяцев назад

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.

@MilwaukeeF40C 8 месяцев назад

Santa Fe and Erie would have been a good transcon.

@armandoperez7967 8 месяцев назад

@@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.