Reply to "Scale GG1 Comparison - GG1s live on!"

ChooChooDennisOGR Forum Member

Do we know who was the guy at the Pennsy who designed the "modified" PRR P5a carbody? Originally the P5a's were boxcabs. Then a fatal crew accident occurred in 1934 and the basis of the now famously unique high-nosed-sloping-from-the-windows-shape sprang from the desire for crew protection.
In August 1934 the first GG1 (with a carbody based on the "modified" P5a) that became #4800 "Old Rivets" was delivered for testing.
Any idea who did it? The answer is NOT Raymond Loewy. He did his work based on #4800 (which took it's cue from the P5a) after it was built. Loewy's magic occurred by stipulating a welded body, removing the nose steps, using sans-serif lettering and those fabulous 5-stripes of gold.
Bu that unique GG1 shape; who done it?

4/4/0811:55 PM

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