Below is a link to another useful GG1 website. One of the survivors has long been scheduled to be moved to The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn (Detroit) Michigan, but the move has been repeatedly delayed. It's future is uncertain.
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/GG1/
The locations and conditions of the surviving "fleet" as of 2003 can be found the "spikesys" website that I provided several posts above.
What's with all the rust-bucket photos? There are still several beautifully preserved examples to be found. For openers, check out the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg.
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Bill H. Fordiesel69 I would like to see a real one some day. I believe there's one at the B&O Museum. Sadly, a LOT of what's still around isn't looking so hot these days...
Fordiesel69 I would like to see a real one some day.
I would like to see a real one some day.
I believe there's one at the B&O Museum. Sadly, a LOT of what's still around isn't looking so hot these days...
Also Strausburg, and I believe stemtown has one also .
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Here is a link to the Wikipedia article, which lists GG1s in museums and shots of the locomotives in movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRR_GG1
A good reference for GG1s is Karl Zimmermann's The Remarkable GG1, of which several copies are available at reasonable prices here:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=zimmermann&kn=GG1&sts=t&x=86&y=16
Bob Nelson
The style of this really hooked me. For being so old, it is just amazing. I would like to see a real one some day.
For many of us here between Washington and Boston -- the North-East corridor -- that is not a locomotive -- that is THE locomotive. Lionel, Williams, MTH, to name just a few, have sold and still sell hundreds of models of the GG1, in both slightly foreshortened and scale-size three-rail O-gauge.
http://www.spikesys.com/GG1/
Don - Top notch explanationl.
Mike Spanier
"In real life", the real world.
In the 1930s the Pennsylvania Railroad electrified there Main Lines from New York to Philadelphia and on to Washington DC, also from Philadelphia to Harrisburg. They used overhead wires (Catenary) providing 11,000 volts AC at 25HTz (still in use today by Amtrak, MARK, Jersey Transit, and SEPTA).
The PRR's first electric locomotive fell short in both power and crew protection. The PRR borrowed a newer design locomotive from the New Haven Railroad. Built by GE, it was a box cab with a 4 wheel pilot truck, 3 powered axels, a second set of 3 powered axels and a 4 wheel trailing truck. To use steam locomotive terms, you might say it was a 4-6-0 coupled back to back with another 4-6-0, on the PRR the 4-6-0 was a Type "G" locomotive. Named the "GG1", the Pennsylvania version was built better, a streamlined body, roller bearings and a much faster top speed (100+ mph). They lasted well into the Amtrak era before retirement to various Museums.
In "O Gauge" 3 rail, Lionel, MTH, Williams, and Weaver have, and do, make models in both "O Scale" and "Lionel Sized". Over the 50 years the paint jobs changed and most can be bought in "O" gauge models, PRR Brunswick dark green, PRR tuscan brown (pin stripe-wide stripe-small Keystone-big Keystone), PRR silver, Conrail blue, Penn-Central black, Amtrak, Jersey Transit, and others.
Don U. TCA 73-5735
This will get you started:
http://www.postwarlionel.com/cgi-bin/postwar?ITEM=2332
In real life, what is this locomotive? Does Lionel sell somthing like this? I think it looks cool.
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