Nostalgia & History > PRR. E units

Several PRR. E units.

#1 5901 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
#2 5898 at Reading, PA. Yours truly posing. These were Andy Mueller's of the Reading & Northern.
#3 5711, 5809 Benett Levin's E's at Altoona.

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#4 4231 at South Amboy, NJ. 1970
#5 5881 at Rahway, NJ. 1957

Ed K.

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What happened to Andy Muller's units?

One is out in Michigan, the other went south, and was scrapped.
Ed K.

The disposition of Muller's E-units was recently discussed on the RYPN interchange. To paraphrase, the best information available suggests that the gutted shell of #5706 was shipped to Sumiton, AL, in 1999 and turned into a wedding chapel(!) #5898 was last known to be in service on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern tourist railroad near Cape Girardeau, MO. Their website shows a current operating schedule as of 2006.

http://www.rosecity.net/trains/schedule.html

Here are the PRR E-8s rounding the Horse Shoe Curve on one of three excursions during Altoona Railfest 2001.

Dave

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The e-units shown on Horseshoe Curve in the 2001 photo belong to Bennett Levin. They are the ex-Conrail executive "E" units restored to PRR appearance. Levin purchased them upon Conrail's demise in the late '90s. They are NOT the same units owned by Andy Muller used on the RBM&N.