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Pictures of NJDOT 4876
Owner:
New Jersey Department of Transportation
Model:
Altoona GG1
Built As:
PRR 4876 (GG1)
Serial Number:
4345
Order No:
Frame Number:
Westinghouse electrical gear
Built:
1/1939
Notes:
ex-PRR
Other locos with this serial:
PRR 4876(GG1)
NJT 4876(GG1)
CR 4876(GG1)
PC 4876(GG1)
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
AMTK 4876(GG1)
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Title:
NJDOT E-8A 4257 and GG1's 4872 and 4876
Description:
With GG-1 4872 and others behind, CR-operated NJDOT E-8A 4257 (ex-PC, rebuilt by GE in 4/78) lines up with E-8A 4272 at the South Amboy engine terminal in July, 1978. The crew's Chevy Chevette and Olds Cutlass vehicles give a historical perspective.
Photo Date:
7/9/1978
Upload Date:
5/6/2018 8:18:54 AM
Location:
South Amboy, NJ
Author:
Alan Page
Categories:
Roster,Yard
Locomotives:
NJDOT 4257(E8A)
NJDOT 4872(GG1)
NJDOT 4257(E8A)
NJDOT 4872(GG1)
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
Views:
551
Comments:
2
Title:
NJDOT GG1 4876
Description:
CR-operated NJDOT GG-1 4876 rests with both pans up between sister units at the South Amboy engine terminal. After retirement from NJDOT in 1983, the GG-1 was donated to NRHS Washington, DC chapter. This GG-1 was famously known to have piloted No. 173, the "Federal Express," from Boston to Washington, DC on January 14, 1953. While approaching Union Station, brake loss of 13 of it's 16 cars made the train a runaway, causing 4876 to smash through the track bumper, the iron track gate, demolish the stationmaster's office, run out onto the concouse floor, and fall through the concrete floor to the basement below, along with two of it's steel passenger cars. After shipping to Altoona, 4876 was placed back in service just 10 months after the accident. A tribute to the amazing skill and determination of the Altoona shop crews. CR retired their freight fleet of GG-1's in 1979, but the NJDOT-contracted GG-1's 4872-4884 saw their operating days extended to the fall of 1983.
Photo Date:
7/9/1978
Upload Date:
5/6/2018 8:02:23 AM
Location:
South Amboy, NJ
Author:
Alan Page
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
Views:
365
Comments:
0
Title:
NJDOT GG1 4876
Description:
NJDOT GG1 4876 waits for assignment in a line of former PRR GG1's at South Amboy. This same GG1 was the famous runaway that crashed through the concourse of Washington's Union Station in 1953, and was back on the rails 10 months later, rebuilt from 3 cutup sections by the Altoona shops. 4876 was one of the last remaining operating GG1's in October, 1983 when the final curtain fell by NJ Transit on the ageless electrics.
Photo Date:
11/18/1978
Upload Date:
10/10/2015 11:10:35 AM
Location:
South Amboy, NJ
Author:
Alan Page
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
Views:
861
Comments:
0
Title:
NJDOT 4876
Description:
Photo Date:
12/17/1978
Upload Date:
7/14/2021 7:36:41 AM
Location:
Elizabeth, NJ
Author:
Rick Coles
Categories:
Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
Views:
303
Comments:
1
Title:
NJDOT 4876
Description:
Photo Date:
12/17/1978
Upload Date:
7/14/2021 7:37:16 AM
Location:
Elizabeth, NJ
Author:
Rick Coles
Categories:
Action
Locomotives:
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
Views:
314
Comments:
0
Title:
NJDOT 4876
Description:
Photo Date:
1/1/1979
Upload Date:
3/15/2013 10:41:16 PM
Location:
Sunnyside, NY
Author:
Philip M. Goldstein
Categories:
Locomotives:
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
Views:
386
Comments:
1
Title:
NJDOT GGË 4876 ready to head back to the engine terminal
Description:
NJDOT GG1 4876 ready to head back to the engine terminal at South Amboy on July 10, 1981.
Photo Date:
7/10/1981
Upload Date:
9/11/2016 7:57:18 AM
Location:
South Amboy, NJ
Author:
Alan Page
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
NJDOT 4876(GG1)
NJT 4876(GG1)
Views:
553
Comments:
4
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