I like the PRR Tuscan 1 stripe.
Originally Posted by Joe Hohmann:
I rode behind many a dull, dirty Penn Central GG1, and why anyone would want to own a model of that one is beyond me.
There are plenty of good reasons the Penn Central still has a following. Many of us have fond memories of the railroad. Some of us had relatives that worked there. Many others enjoy and appreciate the wide and colorful array of motive power and equipment that was inherited by the merger. And some simply take a liking to the utilitarian engine paint schemes. I am a fan of the Penn Central for all the reasons above.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence:
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i thought i had read somewhere that one of the G's sit had its transformer's... if there was a possiblitly of one running again it would be that one... it would still never happen, though would cost way too much money...
but you never know... people dump millions into restoring old planes, look at that P-61 out at reading, its over 80% new parts.
It comes up every so often on a railfan forum I participate in, to much groaning and consternation. The ultimate truth is Yes, you could put enough modern electronics inside a gutted GG1 carbody to make it run off of a catenary (or a generator car for that matter) but the ONLY reason the Gs we're retired in the first place was because they all had stress fractures appearing in the frames. Which, Yeah, you could probably machine a new frame, but if you have all new electronics and a new frame, have you restored a GG1 or killed one and put it's skin on some Frankenstein's monster you built?
I have:
Lionel 2332 5 stripe green (Pennsylvania)
Lionel 18303 silver and red nose (Amtrak)
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money a bunch of GG-1's
W. C. Fields
For those who don't get it, here's a picture of W.C. Fields' nose.
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only one, WBB scale
PRR silver with red strip.
Here's a classic sized GG1 painted in NP Two tone Green by Jeff Sohn. I've also seen a Santa Fe Warbonnett GG1. Very cool.
Pennsy,Pennsy,Pennsy.
PRR, I stripe, TUSCAN!
