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    Famous GG1 #4800 was retired by Conrail and donated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. On the morning of March 10. 1980, #4800 has arrived at the museum and is being shoved into the museum yard by Strasburg RR 44 ton #33
     
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    The Great Western Railways No. 1401 was a 0-4-2T built in August 1932 at Swindon as No. 4801.
    It was the second member of the 4800 class, which totalled 75 by 1936.
    In 1946 the locomotive along with the rest of its class were rebranded as the 1400 class, as the GWR converted twelve of its 2800 class of Consolidations to burn oil, reassigning the 4800 class to that series of experimental locomotives.
    In 1952, she starred in the Ealing Studios comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt, occasionally swapping numberplates with 1450, so more filming could be done quicker. A replica was also built for the crash sequence.
    After this, she carried on her existence as normal, before being broken up in November 1959.
     
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    BNSF 4802 - LOCATION: Essex, MT - MODEL: DASH 9-44CW - PHOTO DATE: May 18, 2013
     
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    1940 New York Central NYC 4-6-2 Steam Locomotive #4804 - B&W 8x10 Railroad Photo
     
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    1950s Southern Railroad Steam Engine 4805 Mikado Locomotive Train Railway RR PC. 91926
     
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    44806 (LMS 4806 & BR 44806)

    4806 was built in 1944 at Derby and later renumbered 44806 by BR following nationalisation in 1948.

    LMS and BR motive power depot allocations.
     
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    SP Southern Pacific FM H-24-66 Locomotive #4807
     
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    Mammoth Workwear
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    HK-4809 bell 206L-1 LongRanger II a posiciĆ³n de tanqueo
     
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    Location: Binghamton, NY
    Categories: Roster,Yard
    Locomotives: NRL 4810(GP38) DH 506(RS3M) DH 5003(RS11) DH 5017(RS36)
     
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    B&O 4811 - Chatham, Ontario, Canada - June 20, 1985
     
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    Up 4812
    Union Pacific Railroad Company
    Date: 1/25/2006 Location: Henefer, UT
     
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    LMS 4-6-0 'Stanier Black 5' No 4813 is seen coming off shed having been fully coaled and watered. Built at Derby works in October 1944 No 4813 remained in service until it was withdrawn from Stoke-on-Trent shed in September 1966 to be scrapped by J Cashmore of Great Bridge in December of the same year. The LMS had underestimated the number of the class they would require consequently the block of numbers set aside for Stanier's mixed traffic Class 5's, 5000 to 5499, were not being sufficient. The LMS then allocated a further block of two hundred numbers, 4800 to 4999, but again they ran out of numbers so they started numbering below 4800. Eventually the eight hundred and forty-two examples of the class would be built, the last few being built under the auspices of British Railways and they were eventually numbered by British Railways from No 44658 to No 45499.
     
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    Locomotives: CR 4815(GG1) - Date: 11/2/1976 - Location: Kearny, NJ
     
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    4816 and a Silverton 48 class on a container coal train at Kooragang, NSW, May 2008
     
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    Playmobil 4817 - Ocean Prince
     
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    State Rail Authority Locomotives 4818, 4513 and a 44 class passing Broadmeadow South Box, Broadmeadow, NSW.
     
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    Q409 RP 1940/50s PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD 2-10-0 LOCOMOTIVE #4619 OR 4819
     
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