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Nostalgia & History > 30 Locomotives in One Photo - 1935 PanoDate: 09/10/14 10:53 30 Locomotives in One Photo - 1935 Pano Author: jmw Presented is a 1935 Lima advertisement featuring 30 Pennsy L6A electrics coupled end to end. Quite the impressive panorama!
Here is a link to a larger version of the ad: http://waidephoto.smugmug.com/Trains/Waide-Collection-of-Vintage/i-DVWpKB3/0/X3/1935%20Lima%20PRR%20Electric%201%20Edit%20Lrg-X3.jpg JMW http://waidephoto.smugmug.com/Trains  Date: 09/10/14 12:48 Re: 30 Locomotives in One Photo - 1935 Pano Author: Labiche And all 30 of them (... Lima built the carbodies, the electrical components were to be installed later) went to scrap during WWII without ever pulling a train.
Date: 09/10/14 15:45 Re: 30 Locomotives in One Photo - 1935 Pano Author: PERichardson Labiche Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > And all 30 of them (... Lima built the carbodies, > the electrical components were to be installed > later) went to scrap during WWII without ever > pulling a train. One, No. 5940, had a long service life. I had one of the builders plate from that loco, now in another's collection. The others went to scrap as you say. Date: 09/10/14 18:36 Re: 30 Locomotives in One Photo - 1935 Pano Author: Milwaukee Labiche Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > And all 30 of them (... Lima built the carbodies, > the electrical components were to be installed > later) went to scrap during WWII without ever > pulling a train. I'm not familiar with this type of unit. With the war traffic volume demanding as many units as possible, what was wrong with these units that made them more valuable as scrap? Date: 09/10/14 23:57 Re: 30 Locomotives in One Photo - 1935 Pano Author: clem Wikipedia says that this batch consisted of one locomotive and 29 "car bodies." (Or rather, one was eventually completed. It's not clear whether it was complete when the above photo was taken.) If so, that's a powered:dummy ratio that would get you laughed out of the NMRA.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/10/14 23:59 by clem. Date: 09/12/14 23:58 Re: 30 Locomotives in One Photo - 1935 Pano Author: DNRY122 Looks like one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" stories. Did PRR try the one that was completed and found it wasn't working out? Did the GG-1 come along and make these units obsolete before they were finished? Makes me think of the Ford Tri-motor airplane and how the DC-3 made it obsolete except for certain specialized tasks in a few years.
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