Old Rivets. Here is a duplicate 35mm color slide of a photo by Richard Short that was taken at Ivy City Yard in the District of Columbia on 7 June 1958. Prominent here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #4800, a GG-1 (2-C-C-2) built by General Electric as number "4899" during August of 1934, rated at 4,620 horsepower, renumbered "4800" in November of 1934, and presently on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The numbers of the other "G's" pictured here are not recorded. |