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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by cefinkjr And as far as I know, the GG1 was not "adapted to haul freight" except to be taken off a passenger train and assigned to freight or vice versa. The same motor that hauled the Broadway one day could find itself on a freight the next. And a quick short story about the GG1. Anybody ever hear of a G1? I was introduced to this strange beast by the Shop Superintendent at Wilmington, DE. Seems a GG1 had been so badly damaged in an accident that it had been written off. Folks in the shop, however, noted that only one end had been damaged. The other end was salvaged (with a plain sheet of steel welded over the end) and was being used as a shop switcher in Wilmington. [/quote] That is not exactly correct. The freight and passenger GG1s had different gearing. In fact some of the passenger GG1s were geared for a maximum of 100 mph while others were geared for a maximum of 90. It depended on if they were designated for clockers or for long distance trains. As the need for passenger service reduced the PRR and later the PC regeared the surplus passenger locomotives. An additional difference was that the freight GG1s did not have steam boilers or the fuel tanks for the oil to fire the boilers. A PRR G1 was a steam 4-6-0. The Wilmington shop switcher did not have an official class designation.
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