#3568
Pennsylvania Railroad class E44
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Electric· from 1960· class of 66 American electric locomotives
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- 1. PRR 4465 Brick: Smallbones· Public domain
what is it?
The PRR E44 was an electric, rectifier-equipped locomotive built by General Electric for the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1960 and 1963. The PRR used them for freight service on the Northeast Corridor. They continued in service under Penn Central and Conrail until Conrail abandoned its electric operations in the early 1980s.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 3.7 MW is about 44 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 29 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1960–1963
- in service from
- 1960
- number built
- 66
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Electric
- operators
- Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, Conrail, Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central Transportation Company
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- 3.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 11 kV 25 Hz AC
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 21 m
- weight
- 175 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2044601, Wikipedia: Pennsylvania Railroad class E44 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.