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View from a GG1

June 20, 2025 brian solomon

During my class last week at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Museum Director Patrick Morrison offered to open up some of the locomotives. I asked if we could visit former Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric 4935.

I made these fireman’s side views with my Lumix LX7.

It was pretty neat to explore the steam-era streamlined electric locomotive. While at the museum I bought my dad a GG1 4935 T-shirt which I delivered to him in Massachusetts a couple of days later.

On January 1, 1980, Pop, my brother Sean and I photographed this classic machine together at New Haven, Connecticut.

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Up Close with an E44 Electric

June 15, 2025 brian solomon

My third Railroad Photography 101 Class was a success!

This was held at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania last week.

While the first part of this 3rd session was conducted outside, the last part of the class was held inside the Museum in the main hall.

Museum Director Patrick Morrison asked if we would like to explore some of the restored locomotives and cars on exhibit in the hall and offered to open up a few of the museum’s gems for photography.

This was a wonderful idea, and soon the students and I were climbing in and around the exhibits.

I had never before been on a Pennsylvania Railroad E44 electric, so it was a thrill for me to take a look inside and sit in the engineer’s seat. These boxy high-horsepower electrics were built by General Electric and share a resemblence with GE’s diesel-electrics built around the same time.

My photos for this exercise were exposed using a Nikon Z7-II with a 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom lens.