The 8,000 HP Electric That Refused to Die: How the GG1 Ran for 49 Years and Killed Its Own Future
In 1935 the Pennsylvania Railroad unveiled an Art Deco electric locomotive so far ahead of its time that it hauled front-line passenger trains for 49 years - outliving the railroad that built it, the railroad that swallowed that one, and the brand-new locomotives bought to replace it. This is the story of Raymond Loewy's masterpiece, the 8,000-horsepower secret in its ratings, and the uncomfortable reason America's greatest electric locomotive never got a successor.
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