4877 looking good

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2003 7:56 pm

PRR (NJT) GG1 4877 looking good after repainting some years ago. What's it look like today? Did it retain its transformers after retirement or get gutted out like most of the others?

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?december02/12-11-02/prr4877raritanNJ.jpg
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Keith Schell · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2003 6:57 am

> PRR (NJT) GG1 4877 looking good after
> repainting some years ago. What's it look
> like today? Did it retain its transformers
> after retirement or get gutted out like most
> of the others?
The last picture on the WEB that I have seen she had a badly faded paint job.It looked like there were primered patches on the lower body . As for the transformer it may have had the PCB coolant oil removed from it like the others that were saved . PCBs were found to be harmfull and they had to have them removed when donated . .

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Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2003 10:02 am

As for the transformer it may
> have had the PCB coolant oil removed from it
> like the others that were saved . PCBs were
> found to be harmfull and they had to have
> them removed when donated . .

*Actually, what I was officially told was that, insofar as the ex-Amtrak and Conrail GG1's, the transformers were removed completely from all the GG1's except for 4800 (where there are supposedly cracks making the transformers unusable) and PRR 4917/Amtrak 4934, originally saved by the Wilmington & Western. I cannot speak for the NJ Transit ones.

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