#4916

Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad as number 4918 for use in the Northeast Corridor from New York to Washington, D.C., this GG1 class electric locomotive was one of 139 built from 1934 to 1943. It is 79 feet 6 inches long, weighs 477,000 pounds, and has a top speed of over 100 mph. It runs on 11,000 volts of single-phase AC power from an overhead wire, produces 4,620 continuous horsepower and over 8,000 horsepower for short periods, and uses twelve 385-horsepower traction motors to drive its twelve 57-inch drive wheels. Raymond Loewy produced the streamlined body style. Number 4918 became an Amtrak unit in 1971 and was renumbered to 4916. After its retirement in 1982, Edmund Boyce Jr. purchased the locomotive for the museum in honor of his parents, Edmund Boyce Sr. and his wife.

Missouri · United States