GG-1 loco from 1953 WAS crash in need of restoration

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CHamilton

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Sixty Years After Barreling Through Union Station, GG-1 Locomotive Rusts Away in Baltimore
Somewhere in the food court at Union Station, on a nondescript stretch of tile between the Great Steak and Potato Co. and China Kitchen, a rather smashing piece of D.C. history was made.

In 1953, a massive locomotive—Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 No. 4876—plowed through the stationmaster's office and main newsstand before crashing through the floor coming to rest on the lower level, where the food court is today. The signs of destruction are long gone, but 60 years later—25 years after its engines gave their last dying hum—the runaway locomotive lies decomposing on a stretch of track in Baltimore.
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The article tells the full story of the crash, and its aftermath.
 
A nice read, I missed the earlier posts, so just caught up in 2016.

Good to know that no one was killed.

I wonder if the conductor, if he was in the last cars, could have applied the air brakes to the rear portion too... probably we will never know.

Ed. :cool:
 
caravanman said:
A nice read, I missed the earlier posts, so just caught up in 2016.

Good to know that no one was killed.

I wonder if the conductor, if he was in the last cars, could have applied the air brakes to the rear portion too... probably we will never know.

Ed. :cool:
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I was thinking the same thing.

I guess pre-cellular phone, how would you have got the message to him?
 
I would imagine that the continuous horn blowing, and the excessive speed towards the end of the journey, over and above the norm, might have alerted him, if he was not asleep over the table in the cafe car. :)

Ed. :cool:
 

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