PRR L6

The Pennsylvania Railroad's class L6 comprised two electric locomotives of 2-8-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation. The intention was to build a whole class of freight boxcab locomotives using this design, but the displacement of class P5a to freight work after the success of the GG1 meant that there was little need for more electric freight locomotives. In addition, the boxcab shape was increasingly considered unsafe in a grade crossing accident. At least 62 L6s were ordered; the frames of 31 were built; 3 were completed, one of these as the only L6a. By the time construction was cancelled in 1937, the remaining L6s were to be completed as L6bs. The last of the class was scrapped in 1968, shortly after the formation of Penn Central.

References

[http://www.northeast.railfan.net/train_misc.html]

[http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1937%20Aug%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology 1937]

[http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1968%20June%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology 1968]