@pennsyfan posted:
Bob:
I love the old, classic Brunswick Green, small Keystone, 5 pin striped PRR GG-1. It is my favorite locomotive. I rode behind those many times on the PRR Northeast Corridor. The GG-1 was the best, all-purpose engine. It did passenger service and freight service. A single GG-1 could pull a train of 18 PRR heavyweight passenger coaches out of Penn Station, NY, up the steep grade of the Hudson tunnel and easily hit the Jersey meadowlands at 80 MPH. Also later, when the Metroliner trainsets rattled themselves loose and had to be taken out of service for repair, the GG-1s, though there were disclaimers of possible delays in passenger timetables due to alternate Metroliner equipment, proved that they could reach enough speed to keep Metroliner schedules. I was heartbroken when the GG-1s were taken out of service and were lined up north of Wilmington shops awaiting their last trips to the scrap yard.