Nostalgia & History > A few more E-44's in PC and CR.

Here is E-44 # 4420 westbound thru New Brunswick, N.J. on 5-5-71 with a long freight.

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Another E-44 passing thru New Brunswick on 5-1-71 with # 4435 leading a westbound freight.

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Another westbound freight led by # 4436 passes thru Jersey Ave. station in New Brunswick, N.J. on 11-26-77.

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Got # 4458 in Conrail lettering eastbound thru New Brunswick,N.J. ON 5-28-79. I hope someday that the model makers will release an HO model of the E-44 as I surly would buy a pair of them in P.R.R. colors.....

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Thanks for posting the pictures; it's always interesting viewing PRR electrics. Also good to see the old position light signals in good working order (unlike what's left on the old N&W - now NS), two showing "Stop and stay" and one showing "Approach" (in the last picture) if my old eyes don't deceive me.

LWC

Hey Enginecrew; here is a shot of the old P.R.R. position light signals on signal bridge 315 looking wb on 12-24-80 - hope it brings back some memory's.

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Here is another one taken at New Brunswick, N.J. of the 315 signal wb on 1-2-81 at twilight.

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Thank you for the nice "juice" show. In June '67, my father treated me to an evening of train watching at North Philadelphia. The PC merger was already a feta comple, but most of the power was still pure PRR. We saw 96 trains between the PC and the Reading beneath us in just under three hours—I'll never forget it.
–Mac

gg1tim Wrote:
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> Hey Enginecrew; here is a shot of the old P.R.R.
> position light signals on signal bridge 315
> looking wb on 12-24-80 - hope it brings back some
> memory's.

You bet it does! While the signals I read were colored (worked for N&W) the positions and meaning were much the same. Many thanks!

P.S. Should clarify that N&W once used to yellow color only but in later years changed "Stop and stay" to two red, side by sidd, with one red below and "Clear" to two green, side by side. Stop and proceed was simply two red.

Another dose, please. Great stuff.

Fantastic! The way a railroad should look.

Would these be the last electric freight locomotives built in the U.S.?

No.

From GE:
There were 7 E25B's built for Texas Utilities, 2 E50C's for the Muskingham Electric in Ohio and 6 E60C's for Black Mesa & Lake Powell (all mine to power plant conveyor railroads). Amtrak sold a couple of E60CH's to Navajo Mine RR and Deseret Western got 2 E60C-2's. Mexico (NdeM) got 39.

From GM:
Not US-built but there were the 7 GF6C's for British Columbia Railway. And the GM6 and GM10 experimentals of 1975 & 1976.

Source: Contemporary Diesel Spotters Guide (1989, Kalmbach)

On PRR, PC and Conrail position light signals the "stop" indication is ether three horizontal lights or two horizontal reds with no single bottom light. A single bottom light makes the indication "stop and proceed". N&W was the oposite.

E-44's at Kearney.

At Rahway.

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Those locomotive were real workhorses.

Jim

Am I correct in assuming that all the wire is gone at all those locations?

Thanks for takin the time to post pictures of "real locomotives" and signals...

leroy