PC Boxcab B-1 #4751 - Penn Central  Contributor's Pick!       
Unique throwback to an earlier Pennsylvania era is this little boxy electric unit. From various online sources, it appears that this unit was stored at the Sunnyside Yard but not used. Possibly in reserve waiting for one more run. The little BB-2 unit was built in 1926 possibly by Alco and according to one source was originally #3912. Unknown photographer of the slide.
Date: 9/26/1974 Location: Sunnyside Yard, NY Views: 377 Collection Of:   Gary Everhart
Locomotives: PC 4751(Boxcab)    Author:  Gary Everhart
PC Boxcab B-1 #4751 - Penn Central
Picture Categories: Roster,Yard This picture is part of album:  PC Boxcab 4751 - unique
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Name Type Comments Date
Mike Maskel General NICE SHOT 1/8/2017 12:08:21 PM
Alan Fricker General Small switchers for use in Sunnyside Yard, IIRC. 1/8/2017 7:37:16 PM
Tom Beckett General PRR had several types of switchers in the B class, which were 0-6-0. Some were steam, some electrics, as this one is. I think these were B 3. They worked, among other places, in Sunnyside Yard, breaking down and making up trains, as well as spotting cars at the massive Railway Express Agency warehouse here. I don't recall if this one was still working at the date of this photo. Amtrak took over the passenger trains three years prior, and almost immediately got rid of a lot of the predecessor road's oddball passenger power, and I'm pretty sure they switched the yard with diesels almost from the beginning. My dad would recall, sadly he's not here to ask. I have a number of his photos of these units at work. It's a good photo of a now long extinct, but still distinctive unit. 1/9/2017 5:50:03 AM
Robert Farkas General What a catch! 1/10/2017 9:13:26 PM
Jeff McNeal General A fascinating photograph of a unique survivor. I had no idea such a unit existed until just last week, when a fellow rail fan pointed it out to me, and this site. 5/26/2017 3:30:31 AM

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