The pennsylvania railroad class GG-1 electric locomotives

A LARGE GROUP had gathered on the upper platform of The Pennsylvania Railroad Thirtieth Street Station in Philadelphia on Sunday morning, May 17, 1959. Standing at the head of a train of gleaming coaches they watched a very special locomotive back down the track and couple to the leading car. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the construction of the first class-GG-1 electric locomotive for The Pennsylvania Railroad. It was this locomotive, number 4800, fresh from the paint shop and proudly displaying a 25th anniversary bronze plaque beneath the engineman´s window (Fig. 1), that was to haul the National. Railway Historical Society special train. A brief ceremony with its attendant picture-taking climaxed the occasion and the train departed for New York.