C W Burfle posted:Worst thing that ever happened was Eric Siegel putting the "traditional" GG-1 and the scale GG-1 on the track next to each other in that VisionLine review...my old GG-1s never looked the same since!!!
You can't un-see it!!!
I don't need to in-see it. I'll take the traditional GG-1 any day.
They look fine to me. Plus I will never have a layout with curves that are wide enough to run a scale GG-1.
I have a genuine Postwar Lionel 2360 GG-1 out on my layout right now. Between it's weight and powerful magnetraction, it is one heck of a puller. It's range of speeds suits me too.If I wanted scale, I'd do HO.
During the later '60's I road to and from college on the SCL Silver Star many times. They were powered by EMD E-units. While standing right next to those beauties, your visual perspective gives you the appearance that the height of the height:length ratio tended to overpower its length, such that when you saw an actual model of a scale EMD E-unit it looked too long. My mind tended to perceive E-units closer to F-unit length.
I would suppose the GG-1 does likewise.
