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Updated: 26 Aug 2006, 08:20 ET
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S. Berliner, III's

PRR Survivor Boxcab
1931 Class P5 #4700 Page

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Ingersoll-Rand 1925 Demonstrator #9681
(later CNJ #1000)
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PRR SURVIVOR BOXCAB
Class P5 #4700

Electric Locomotive

(Altoona - 1931)

There are now more than fifty (50) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.

PAGE INDEX:

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See the SURVIVOR BOXCAB LOCATIONS MAP.

and the

ROSTER OF SURVIVING ALCo-GE-IR BOXCABS.

There are now separate pages for each AGEIR or similar surviving boxcab; the redundant material is being removed (very slowly).

This site has now been visited

times since the counter was installed.

- This page is not finished; I wanted to put up the information and links but have a long way to go in all this!

3c (on Survivors Map) -

Pennsylvania RR Class P5 (followed by the P5A and experimental P5B) were designed as fast (95mph) 4-C-4 freight locomotives with passenger capability. Many P5A units were given semi-streamlined center-cab bodies [so-called P5A MOD (modified)]. Of the 64 units built, only the first, P5 #4700 survives at the Museum of Transportation (formerly the National Museum of Transport) in St. Louis! I missed it when I was out there; it is not mentioned on their site and I am trying to get more information for here and my PRR pages. No streamlined P5A Modified units were saved. (26 Aug 06)

Thanks to the great courtesy of the Museum of Transportation, I am able to reproduce here this shot of #4700 they dug out of their files for us:

This is an old photo, taken shortly after the unit's arrival; she has since been repainted at least once and was put under a roof ca. 1996 (with the errant pan lowered, one presumes - actually both are now down and locked).

I was out at the MoT on 27 Jun 06 to find #4700 (and GG1 #4916) under the shed but looking rather sad and inaccessible: (26 Aug 06)

(27 Jun 06 photo by and © 2006 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
{thumbnailed image - click on photo for larger image}

Let's find a way to bring her back to Pennsylvania (Strasburg) where she can be properly cared for and appreciated!

Specifications:

(26 Aug 06)

Length - 62' 8" (over coupling faces)

[56' 10" cab end-to-end]

Width - 10' 6" (cab)

Height - 15' 0" (over pan, locked down)

[5' 11¼" to under side of cab,

12' 8" to roof of cab]

Weight - 375,000 lbs.

T. E. - 50,250 lbs.

HP - 3,000 (500 per traction motor)

[upped to 3,750/625 on P5A,

5,310 on P5B with 375HP traction motors on each guiding truck axle]

WB - 43' 10" (overall)

WB - 20' 0" (rigid)

WB - 7' 10" (guide truck)

Wheel Dia. - 72" drivers, 36" guide

- This page is not finished; I wanted to put up the information and links but have a long way to go in all this!

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see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.

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