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My God, but the GG1 was a powerful machine!

How cool is tgat!-- that GG1 is pure power, nothing fancy, all business, thanks!

Love the groan of old traction motors.

Man, it says 1982 but it looks like the '30s. I was getting around on machinery in teh 30s and it was a lot sunnier and colorful than that

Sounds like a giant trolley

That hum you hear was the same hum I remember hearing the old Erie Lackawanna/ NJT electric MUs sounded like.

Worked for the water co and used to stare at the GG1 all lunchtime it was beautiful

What a beast😂looks like he’s driving a steamer 😂

The visibility of the track ahead is remarkably good. I often wondered about that considering the front window is small and far back along the side.

I had a similar ride with a relative who was a fireman at the time. 1967.

Yes I filmed that on super 8 sound

Hear lots of PCBs inside the oil cooled transformers. Wonder if any engineers got sick as a result (not from handling it, but being nearby)

Similar to the one at IRM

I heard a rumor that the fluid in the batteries in the GG1’s caused some sort of cancer, but then again they were built in 1942

Do love the sound on the traction moters on these GG1 Locomotives.

i have model this electric trine gg1 in size HO (1/87). Very nice model

Great stuff….. thanks for sharing 👍

This is the North Jersey Coastline and Amtrak North East Corridor. This Locomotive Engineer was banned from working on the North East Corridor through the Baltimore Division. Starting at Sunny Side Yard Queens NYC to Union Station Washington DC.He was the Locomotive Engineer on the Silver Star that wrecked in the Baltimore Division. It was determined that he wasn’t speeding. The Rail Spread while he was going 80 MPH. Some of the coaches were almost buried up to the Windows. He actually had to appear and testify in front of the US Congressional Hearing. He got screwed and found guilty of negligence. A Union Lawyer Representative was supposed to show up to his inquiry, but no one showed up. He brought in for me to look at all the Inquiry paper work. He became a very bitter Locomotive Engineer after this Wreck and never forgave the Union for not showing up to the inquiry. Mainly because he was in the top ten in seniority. The South Ambassador NJ to Sunny Side Yard Queens NYC and return was a 7 day a week job. The job he was on that went to Union Station Washington DC worked 10 days a month and made more money than the South Amboy Job. His first name was Joe and he was an excellent Locomotive Engineer. The only good thing, signing up at South Amboy was he lived in South Amboy NJ and could literally walk to work.

incredible bit of film, awesome, really

One of my favorite locomotives. Thanks,

Beautiful US&S wigwag! You don't see these much anymore, they're rare even for wigwags.

Was it that hard to drive a gg1?

Two horns? One sounds British!

And 40 years later, that dilapidated bridge has become even more dilapidated! LOL!

It sounds like the end of the world.

Thank you for the video. Very interesting!

Im scared , but I love it

Busy hands, my gawd

That was great!

My grandad was an engineer on the southern railway. In the 50s and 60s. He use to park his f7 or e8 diesels next to them in ivy city rail yard in washington dc. Very cool video.

These things look and sound like they belong in a David Lynch film.........

NJCL Was the 1st or 2nd NJT line

Before the pandemic I would ride this line into NYC all the time. I guess this a bit subjective but the ALP46s they use today don't look nearly as cool as these absolute titans. They used to change the locomotive in two minutes flat at South Amboy. The electrification extends to Long Branch now, but you have to transfer to a diesel train which is a pain in the butt, especially since they tend to show up late!

Ohh, Whippany... I’m planning on going there soon.

Nice, I cant wait to go there. Boonton, NJ?

A mans piece of equipment

Ran this same territory with Meatballs and Hippos.

I enjoyed that! Warts and all. This is the real ting, no fancy music; just the loco doing all the talking. At 85, I am more than well aware of the GG1; the greatest American electric loco of them all.

Back in the day when I was younger I used to work for a carnival and one of the rides that I used to run was the bumper cars you would get that ozone smell from the electric generated through the cars.. In my latter years I got to ride on a GG1 and that same smell permeated the cab and you could almost feel the hair standing up on your head from the static electricity generated from the big electric motors 😨😨💥

Enjoyable and only wish it were longer! Cool in that we have something of an idea of what things were like for a GG1 crew. One point: I vaguely remember reading long ago that the GG1's riding qualities were decent, compared to other locomotives of its time period. The engineer here was busy, but appeared comfortable. I'm only guessing but the "Camera shake" from the videographer (who did a great job) standing inside a speeding locomotive, perhaps, makes this ride look slightly bouncier than it actually was. I've shot video from a modern car, while pacing trains, and I still managed to have "camera shake". But that's just an observation. It's best to speak with the good people that ran these giants. A "High-5" to the gentleman who shot this. THANKS!

I wonder if this where the star trek warp sounds came from

Finally. Plus I see the command i indicators lit up

Thanks

Thanks for the video it’s awesome 👍

Awesome! A piece of video GOLD!!

Only if they could bring the gg1’s back

There will never be a loco cooler than the GG1 but damn it looks like those were hard to see out of, seriously how easy was it to see signals on either side of the track when the cab is completely bisected by the nose??

Nice, but a hell for the driver.

It's amazing how good their muscle memory is...They can be half-awake and do their jobs...Never seen an engineer sit still...

I worked on these both as a student engineer and engineer. In the winter time in below zero blizzards, you froze your ass off. Snow and ice coming into the cab through every crack there was. In the summer it must be close to 110/120 degrees in the cab. If you were running from the end with the tap switches, it would sound like firecrackers going off every time you notched back. They were some experience! This is not Cliff Underwood by the way.