Wheel ArrangementClassNumber(s)QuantityBuilderDate BuiltRetirementNotes 2-8-0 H6b 1-9988 (Not Sequential) 148 Baldwin, PRR, Alco (Pittsburgh) 1907-1913 1925-1953 - 2-8-2 L1s 2-9866 574 (Not Sequential) PRR, Baldwin 1914-1919 1941-1959 - 0-6-0 B6sa 3-6227 (Not Sequential) 55 PRR...
However, an ordinance prevented it from reaching the city directly. To circumvent this issue the Seaboard Air Line Belt Railroad (SALB) was chartered in 1892 to build an 8-mile branch and a connection with the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis at Howells. From there the SALB utilized trac...
this new GG1 could run on the Northeast Corridor or any other electrified railroad but, it would not be an authentic GG1, it would simply be a modern electric locomotive with the carbody of a GG1. Unfortunately changes in technology have finally, after 60 years, forced the retirement of ...
Hopefully, the unions involved and the employer could by collective bargaining resolve this matter. Attrition by retirements should leave room for both the train porters and the brakemen to continue their present employment with defendant railroad under some mutually satisfactory arrangement. This is a...