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{{Infobox Locomotive
|name             = Pennsylvania Railroad L6
|powertype        = Electric
|image            = PRR L6 7825.jpg
|caption          = L6 #7825
|builder          = [[Pennsylvania Railroad|PRR]] [[Altoona Works]]
|ordernumber      =
|serialnumber     =
|buildmodel       =
|builddate        = 1932–1933
|totalproduction  = 3
|whytetype        = 2-8-2
|aarwheels        = 1-D-1
|uicclass         = 1'Do'1
|gauge            = {{track gauge|ussg|allk=on}}
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|driverdiameter   = {{convert|62|in|m|3|abbr=on}}
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|weightondrivers  = {{convert|220000|lb|sigfig=3|abbr=on}}
|locoweight       = {{convert|300000|lb|sigfig=3|abbr=on}}
|sandcap        =
|electricsystem   = 11 [[Volt|kV]], 25 [[Hertz|Hz]] [[Alternating current|AC]]
|collectionmethod = [[Pantograph (rail)|Pantograph]]
|alternator       =
|generator        =
|tractionmotors   = 4x {{convert|625|hp|abbr=on}}
|transmission     = AC current fed via a transformer [[tap changer]] to AC traction motors.
|multipleworking  =
|maxspeed         = {{convert|54|mph|abbr=on}}
|poweroutput      = {{convert|2500|hp|abbr=on}}
|tractiveeffort   = {{convert|55000|lbf|kN|2|abbr=on}}
|factorofadhesion =
|trainheating     = None
|locobrakes       = [[Railway air brake|Air]]
|locobrakeforce   = 
|trainbrakes      = Air
|safety           = [[Cab signalling]]
|operator         = Pennsylvania Railroad
|operatorclass    =
|powerclass       =
|numinclass       = L6: 2, L6a: 1
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|scrapdate        = 1966–1967
|currentowner     =
|disposition      = All [[scrap]]ped
}}
The [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]'s class '''L6''' comprised three [[electric locomotive]]s 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 [[PRR P5|P5a]] to freight work after the introduction of the [[PRR GG1|GG1]] meant that there was little need for more electric freight locomotives.

Two L6 class locomotives were built at [[Altoona Works]] as prototypes in 1932. Numbered 7825–7826, they were renumbered 5938–5939 in 1933. Sixty production L6a locomotives were planned, with the car bodies of thirty subcontracted to  [[Lima Locomotive Works]] (order number 1128, construction numbers 7587–7616). One was completed as PRR 5940, while the other 29 car bodies remained in store at Altoona until scrapped in 1942 for the [[World War II|war]] effort. 

The 5939 and 5940 were renumbered 4790 and 4791 in 1966, with the 5938 scrapped the same year. The last two were scrapped in 1967.

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{refbegin}}
*{{Volkmer-Pennsy-Electric |pages=16, 126–127 }}
* [http://www.northeast.railfan.net/train_misc.html Train Misc] ''NE Rails''
* [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]
* {{Staufer-Pennsy | |page  = 298}}
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