#2602
Pennsylvania Railroad class DD2
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Altoona Works· from 1938· class of 1 American (2′Bo)(Bo2′) electric locomotive
what is it?
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class DD2 was a single prototype electric locomotive never placed into series production. It was intended as an improved and simplified GG1 for use on the planned, but never built, extension of the PRR's electrification west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The one locomotive produced was numbered #5800 and used in regular Baltimore tunnel helper service until it was scrapped in September 1962.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 88 years ago, in 1938.
- 3.7 MW is about 44 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 34 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 24 years (1938–1962).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1938
- in service from
- 1938
- retired
- 1962
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Altoona Works
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- 3.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 11 kV, AC 25 Hz overhead
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0+0-4-4
- length
- 22 m
- weight
- 204 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7120477, Wikipedia: Pennsylvania Railroad class DD2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.