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That GN unit went to PRR and if i'm not mistaken the nose wound up on an F unit which was wrecked and repaired.
Just the opposite - As visually displayed, #5011 was the victim of two FT A-unit donors, and reclassified after the rebuild as a Y1A. Funnily, a F unit wearing the original nose of the pre-accident GN Y1 design would look more like a RI AB unit, as the Y1s were a box cab design, not like the streamlined W1 I posted. But yes, the PRR ended up with seven of the GN Y1s in '58, I think.The GN W1, of which there were only 2 units - 5018 and 5019 - never went to the PRR. 5019 was scrapped but 5018 was sold to the UP, where it lost its cabs and pantographs and its frame ended up as a UP turbine unit joined to a PA1 (80/80A).