[PRR-talk] U25C/E44 and brethren

[ricktipton]

1. To my shame, I don't remember the specs on the Muskingum Electric Railway
units, built IIRC in the early 60's.  I can remember thinking how flimsy the
simple catenary looked (especially compared to PRR's structures).  However,
GE later delivered some big electric units to the Black Mesa & Lake Powell,
which I believe was a newly built coal-mine-to-power-plant line in the
4-Corners/Navajo country where Colorado meets NM, AZ, and UT.  That was a
later project than the Muskie, and may have been the ultimate development of
the "E44" family.

2. While we're on the subject, how different were early U25C trucks from
those that appeared on the VGN/NH/PC E33 units?  The E33's and E44/E44a's
put on quite a show out of Enola in the Seventies.

Rick Tipton -- Louisville Kentucky
ricktipton at bellsouth.net
Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society
Remembering PRR Lines West

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There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1a. Re: U25C    
    From: Bruce gadbois
1b. Re: U25C    
    From: Bruce Smith

2. Re: [PRR-FAX] 2 questions about PRR's PA's    
    From: Gatwood, Elden J SAD


Messages
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1b. Re: U25C
    Posted by: "Bruce Smith" smithbf at auburn.edu smithbf36832
    Date: Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:58 pm ((PDT))

On Thu, June 26, 2008 3:00 pm, Bruce gadbois wrote:
> The PRR never had any, but the E-55 was an updated E-44a, as produced
> later.  IIRC, some mining road out west was the only place that used
>them.

Yeah, Lines West, as in Ohio <VBG>.  The Zanesville area to be precise.  I
believe that the Muskingum Electric Railway served the mine where "Big
Muskie", once the largest electric walking dragline, worked.

Regards
Bruce
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL (Lines South?)