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Has a GG1 ever been restored to running order?

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Dear Dave, Careful.... I admit that something dangerous or patently unreliable must be replaced, but as restorers (and consequently executors of history today), we can't go replacing stuff that doesn't need to be replaced. I volunteer at a museum which also has a Union Pacific E (E-8 942). We didn't go trough a massive rebuilding like this, and the E works well enough. The Executive E's work so well because they have a world class shop to take care of them. I would like to think of the Orange Empire Railway Museum as a good trolley museum. We have almost all of the surviving equipment from the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric. We are an operating museum, but when we do a restoration, we don't replace more than we have to. Certainly, we rewind coils in our motors, but we don't replace the resistor groups and contactors unless necessary. Historic veracity must come before "hot rod." Oh, and I don't think that GG-1's have cotton insulated wire :). With the modifications you propose, I feel like I should be hearing on the radio, "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, at the Fairground Speedway Station, Station, see the massive GG-1 in action, action. Discount tickets are available, and kids under five are free, free." [:)][:D]. Sincerely and respectfully, Daniel Parks
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