My son is special needs and he loves trains 🚆🛤🚋🚊🚂🚃🚄🚅🚇🚈🚉🚝🚞 they're one of his favorite things in the whole world 🌎! He thinks antique streetcars 🚊and interurbans 🚋 are highly underrated forms of public transportation and all should be preserved, restored, and put back into service carrying passengers in city streets and between cities just like they use to. He also thinks that the entire North Shore Line should be rebuilt and used again as well as the Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin, Sacramento Northern, and the Pacific Electric. And that the CRANDIC railroad should start running electric trains again.
@@anthonyhunt701 Yes, the cooling oil in the transformers. Before any G went to a preservation railroad, the transformers were removed and sent to a Superfund site or some such place. A G can only be made operable with all manner of electrical modifications, even though the motors are 600 volt universal traction motors. In addition, I understand that most of them have emergency welds to the frames.
From what I understand the big problem with doing something like that with a GG1 now, aside from the electrical complexities, is that the frames are worn out. I read somewhere that near the end of the GG1s use there was a large furnace set up at Wilmington, I think, that would reheat the frame of a GG1 so that it would relieve the stresses in the metal. Of course, you could only do that so many times before it was just shot.
My special needs son thinks that Siemens, Progress Rail, or any other company that builds railroad equipment should build full size working replicas of GG1's.
Great video I was there working in the Milwaukee Road Historical Association museum. Got a ride on IR 65 the first piece of railroad equipment of IRM.
36:57 well it’s about time this thing was brought out again
My son is special needs and he loves trains 🚆🛤🚋🚊🚂🚃🚄🚅🚇🚈🚉🚝🚞 they're one of his favorite things in the whole world 🌎! He thinks antique streetcars 🚊and interurbans 🚋 are highly underrated forms of public transportation and all should be preserved, restored, and put back into service carrying passengers in city streets and between cities just like they use to. He also thinks that the entire North Shore Line should be rebuilt and used again as well as the Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin, Sacramento Northern, and the Pacific Electric. And that the CRANDIC railroad should start running electric trains again.
Great job! Really emjoyed seeing these.
38:00 Russa "little joe" a mais bonita. logico que com a pintura da FEPASA
I heard the GG-1 blowing it’s horn!!
That's actually the South Shore 803 you're hearing. Both of it's horns somehow blow at the same time
@@TWIGYBNSF Oh ok.
GG1 can’t actually run due to carcinogen produced by something in it internally :(
@@anthonyhunt701 Yes, the cooling oil in the transformers. Before any G went to a preservation railroad, the transformers were removed and sent to a Superfund site or some such place. A G can only be made operable with all manner of electrical modifications, even though the motors are 600 volt universal traction motors. In addition, I understand that most of them have emergency welds to the frames.
9:30 Oh look, it's me!
To think that these used to be everywhere back in the day, it's sad we bulldozed our trolley lines and towns for highways and parking lots.
Why don't they just gut out the GG1 locomotive and put new authentic motor in it, just take out the old one and put it on display somewhere!
From what I understand the big problem with doing something like that with a GG1 now, aside from the electrical complexities, is that the frames are worn out. I read somewhere that near the end of the GG1s use there was a large furnace set up at Wilmington, I think, that would reheat the frame of a GG1 so that it would relieve the stresses in the metal. Of course, you could only do that so many times before it was just shot.
My special needs son thinks that Siemens, Progress Rail, or any other company that builds railroad equipment should build full size working replicas of GG1's.
The last line condition 50 year's distance the Eastern Europe 🤣 The green USA no global warming.. no carbon dioxide.... Greta Thunberg satisfaction 🤣
Please take your conservative boomer ramblings some place else. This is a video about electric trains. Not a political video
@@ATSF669 Just remove this guy's comment
@@ATSF669on a less political note, can you make a compilation of the Leslie A200 at IRM? I’ve been trying to find good videos to my playlist