The GE "pile" LCJ made mention of, sat for the longest time, behind E'port, with a rather unusual assortment of old NJDOT locos. I saw one also (possibly the same one) down in Wilmington, at the shops where Amtrak stored all of the junk E-60's, RS-1 and SW-1 locos, in the mid 80's. Also there, a huge assortment of derelict GG-1 locos. Will post a pic, of that GE rebuilt E-44, when I come across the phot of it. I photo'ed the cab, and as I seem to remember, it had either a 16 notch, or 27 notch controller (throttle) on it. It had one of those, the GG-1 had the other, just don't remember which was which. Those locos were "too little, too late", as LCJ mentioned, ConRail had no desire to maintain electric locos, or transmission wires, catenary, etc. They were done away with, operationally, as fast as they could be replaced, with diesels. Look at the Virginian, Milwaukee, etc., and see there was no interest in maintianing electric operations, once diesels could muster comparable HP and tractive effort numbers, as the electrics. Less headaches, with power swaps, maintenance, etc., as well as a "simplified" parts inventory. (theoretically, anyways) Regards