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Penn Central/PRR/NYC/Conrail Collection

Collection Name: Penn Central/Pennsylvania Railroad/New York Central/Conrail Collection Location: Pullman Library Description: Drawings, correspondence, documents Size: Percent Digitized: 10% For more information on the Pullman Library, see www.irm.org/pullmanlibrary

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Conrail 4601

Conrail 4601 is a mainline electric freight locomotive. It was built hauling coal trains for the Virginian Railway but was sold in 1963 to the New Haven Railroad. On the New Haven, it was used in general freight service between New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. Locomotive 4601 was

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Penn Central 4715

Penn Central 4715 is the oldest electric locomotive preserved at IRM and is known as an “S-Motor.” It was built to haul passenger trains north out of Grand Central Terminal in New York City because steam engines could not be used in the Park Avenue Tunnel. It has a “bi-polar”

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