PENN CENTRAL

This page will cover the Wilmington, Delaware shop area.  This was the main shop for the electric engines, more commonly called motors.  Amtrak now owns and operates it for their motors.

E44 4401                  An assortment of out of service GG-1's           4842 is now half of a GG-1

A collection of RS-3's, a SW-1 and some Baldwin switchers from 1974.

GP30 2201               Two junk MP54 cars

A gallery of GG-1's all sitting out their last days at Wilmington.  4926 in Amtrak red and silver and 4935 in PRR pinstripes.

Amtrak purchased some RS-3's for work train service                The SW-1 were used for terminal switching

  Some very old PRR passenger cars serving in work train service.

Following the termination of electrified freight service by Conrail, some of the E44's were purchased by Amtrak and New Jersey Transit.  Their careers with both were short-lived.

  E60 975 and several GG-1's on the dead line in 1982.

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