Most famous GG1

Most famous GG1

By Angela Cotey | April 26, 2024

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Freshly washed GG1 No. 4876 leaves Wilmington, Del., with the Executive. On Jan. 15, 1953, the locomotive was involved in a runaway wreck that dropped it into the basement of Washington Union Station.
R.H. Braun photo

Freshly washed GG1 No. 4876 leaves Wilmington, Del., with the Executive. On Jan. 15, 1953, the locomotive was involved in a runaway wreck that dropped it into the basement of Washington Union Station.

R.H. Braun

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