Kelly Anderson posted:I took a call once from a guy who wanted my opinion on his idea of filling the car body of a GG1 with car batteries and powering it that way.
From a "slightly" more practical real world direction, the most likely way to see a GG1 run again would be to dieselize it, if it would even be possible to provide power that would work with it's traction motors, if those traction motors are even restorable after all this time. Then it could be run on any tourist line where a little more life might be squeezed out of the brittle frames, etc. You would still be talking millions of dollars plus.
And why would you want to? It's not a steam engine, it looks exactly the same when moving as it does sitting dead.
Not that I think the notion of getting a GG-1 running is any more practical than those who know better (as far as I know there doesn't even exist the capability in this country to cast objects as large as the GG1's frames), how's this for a silly idea: make it a road slug, getting its power from generators in a tethered unit trailing behind. At least then you could still say it was pulling whatever was behind it 
(Disclaimer: I feel the need to reiterate that I don't think any of the proposals floated are workable, and even a T-1-esque reproduction would have no place to run)
---PCJ
