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Fifty years ago, scrappers were cutting up all of the NYC Hudsons, all the NYC Niagras, every D&RGW standard gauge steam locomotive, all the T1's, the S1, the Q1, the Q2, all the Milwaukee Road's [amazingly built] Atlantics and Hudsons, and something closer to your heart. Why? Because they thought that the locomotives were of no historic value. Please, oh please, I implore you! Let us not make the same mistake as those who cut up today's lost engines. It is not just the GG-1 which is historic, but also what MAKES UP A GG-1; this includes the steam generator, the water tanks, the electronics, the system.... Don't change out any more than you have to. A GG-1 was built to run on 11, 000 V--let it. There's still plenty of track using that voltage on the same frequecy. Leave well enough alone! I know people who would rather have a hotrod than a factual manifestation of a bygone era, and to take a GG-1 and make it into an XX-10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 is a wrong to the principles of historic preservation--the reason these locomotives were saved in the first place. Sincerely yours in defense of history, Daniel Parks
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