Wow, it looks like it's "GG1 Week" on the Lake Shore Railway, and with more "mints" than Life Savers, Breath Savers, Tic Tac's, and Altoids combined! The good old Lake Shore, where anything can show up and usually does! Thanks Jim!
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator I mostly prefer the later era GG1 in Amtrak phase 1 and Conrail paint schemes but if I had to take my pic of which of the classic paint schemes look the best I would say that the Brunswick green with five stripes probably looks the best although the Tuscan with five stripes is also pretty close. I honestly like the five stripes version better than the single stripe version. Single stripe doesn’t look as complete in my opinion as if it is just not as grand as the five stripe version and is a little bit too simple.
@@lucasquintanilla1673 I guess it is a matter of what era you formed your collecting taste in. I always prefer the "original" or pre-merger railroads, PRR, NYC, CMStP&P, B&O.....the list goes on. I have a lot of respect for the Union Pacific, because I believe it is the only "original" road name that still exists in the USA.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator union pacific is some thing that I respect as well. Although up until just a year or so ago, Canadian pacific and Kansas City Southern were still around although you can definitely still see their diesels if you know where to look, they’ve just started making the new paint schemes in the last few months. Canadian national would be the only original railroad left other than union pacific. I kind of like the modern Canadian national paint schemes, although I only know a little bit about the steam era for Canadian national. I do know they had some interesting looking streamliners. I really do like Union Pacific and I’m probably going to have a combination of modern and classic union pacific so imagine stuff like big boy 4014, 844 and the 49er along with modern diesels.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator what is one locomotive you wish you could have a model of but you don’t? As for my self I’ve mentioned multiple times that I love the streamliners, but when it comes to engines that they don’t make models in at least in O gauge really wish that there were British and foreign locomotives out there you could get from Lionel. I wish I could get a flying Scotsman, the locomotive Dwight D Eisenhower, city of turro, or the World War II era engines from the southern railway, as well as some British rail standard classes. The American engine I wish we had the most in O gauge that we don’t is probably the United States Army transportation corps locomotives from World War II such as the S160 which were sent across the world, such as Britain, China, the state of Alaska and Eastern Europe, as well as Germany and France. In the present day, there are several that are in operation, most of which are actually in great Britain, although one is an operation in North Carolina as it has been cosmetically altered to look like a typical American steam locomotive and another is almost finished with its restoration to operational condition in Alaska. I’m honestly surprised why neither MTH, nor lionel made O gauge models of it because, they’ve made so many of the world war, one era locomotives that I’m honestly shocked that they didn’t do these engines. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, despite being of the same class of engine, their appearances could vary wildly depending upon which country they were in because they were quite modular, and the engines that are in Britain look a lot different from ones in America which in turn look a lot different from ones in China.
@@lucasquintanilla1673 Hard to say. Hudsons, GG-1's, F-3's and GP7's are probably my favorites, plus turbines, Pacifics........I already have too many of each. I don't have any of the articulated steamers, but the LS Ry does have a budget it has to try and stay within.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator all really interesting choices. Honestly, if I had to make a guess as to what the locomotives you would be most likely to get if you had the chance would’ve been either the Hudson version of the Milwaukee Rd., Hiawatha, which looks a bit different than the Atlantic version or maybe big boy because I think you once mentioned that you would like big boy if you had the money
Growing up the kid next door had a 2-motor GG1, I had my Milwaukee Rd 2338 GP7. I never got a GG1 as a kid, so I am making up for that now. Thanks for watching, Steve.
Fun video. You know you could have called this "There's Gold on Them Thar Rails". I first saw a real Pennsy GG-1 back in the summer of 69 in NYC. I was taking the Sourthern Crescent to New Orleans and it was on the head end to take us to DC. Then our local RR Museum, Age of Steam, has one on display. Thanks for sharing.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator i’ve seen two GG1’s actually in person. The first one was a Amtrak era GG1 at the St. Louis Museum of transportation, although it was in a sorry state. It was covered in rust by that point, even if it was tucked away at the back of a pavilion with a covered ceiling to prevent further deterioration. it was explicitly stated that it was a Amtrak era GG1 and after doing some research both on the Museum website and other sources I discovered that during the Amtrak era it still had its pen central black paint scheme with the exception of white Amtrak lettering on it as the Penn Central pretzel logo wasn’t there anymore when it was in use on Amtrak. The other GG1 I saw was in much better condition and it was at the national railroad museum in Green Bay Wisconsin, and it was in classic Pennsylvania railroad colors with Tuscan red and several gold pinstripes on it. It was next to a few other engines like a Korean war era steam locomotive that had been built during World War I as well as Union Pacific big boy 4012 and most notably a British steam locomotive that was the locomotive that pulled Eisenhowers command train in Great Britain in the lead up to D-Day. That engine is of the same class that Mallard is and it’s the only streamlined steam locomotive I’ve seen in person. It’s named Dwight D Eisenhower as it was named that right after the war although before that it was named golden shuttle. It’s in a 1950s postwar Brunswick green paint scheme.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator no problem with that I understand. In terms of my collecting tastes, for the era, I like a combination of late steam and streamlined diesels and steam engines along with some of the merger era railroads. Burlington northern, Chessie system, Amtrak, via rail, Erie Lackawanna, Conrail, and post 1960 union pacific is the sort of things I like. pre-1960 stuff that I enjoy the most are New York Central, Santa Fe, union pacific and Norfolk and western although I like some Norfolk and western diesels as well. I am pretty much intending for my layout to probably be a combination of pre-and post 1960 stuff so I might have stuff like yellow bonnet Santa Fe diesels, and red war bonnet diesels, considering I always liked the look of the yellow bonnet, diesels on my old train VHS cassettes when I was a kid and of course you can’t get much better than a red war bonnet. I was also inspired by some late steam era operations like in China and Mexico, which had unusual sights like steam engines, working in tandem with diesels like the SD40-2 or GP diesels of a similar era or engines that looked visually like them. Probably I might do stuff like having Santa Fe steam engines, assisting yellow bonnet, GP, diesels or SD 40 -2’s be simulated or vice versa. Perhaps the thing that would be most interesting, would be using the bicentennial and American freedom train engines for stuff like a simulated vintage Amtrak.
Mint Cars In Mint Condition, Did You Attend The 25th TCA Convention? If 1979 Was The 25th, Then This Past One In Lancaster Was The 70th. 1979 Was Monumental Year, February 2021, Retired, These GG1s Run So Good On T Rail, Of Course Every Thing Runs Well On T Rail. One Day I Need To Get Out That Way, Hope All Goes Well Next Month.
Yes I did attend the 25th in Anaheim, was able to schedule a business trip to LA. I once had the coin with my original example of this car, but no longer have it. I think the coin was only available at the convention. The "Mint" GG1's have 2 motors and Magne-Traction, so run as well as the mid-1950's ones.
Yea, that was made special for the CCCA (Candy Collector's Club of America). I hear that a wealthy dentist bought them all "for our own good" so they are impossible to find. I liked the chocolate Neccos best.
Man I wish I could get a hold of some T rail. It would handle everything I want to run. Would you happen to know what code the rail is? If it's equivalent to code 250
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What a great running session! Loved seeing all the GG1’s and mint cars! 💯❤😎
Thanks, glad that you liked it.
Wow, it looks like it's "GG1 Week" on the Lake Shore Railway, and with more "mints" than Life Savers, Breath Savers, Tic Tac's, and Altoids combined!
The good old Lake Shore, where anything can show up and usually does!
Thanks Jim!
Thanks for watching. Yes, at the LS Ry it is always "Anything can happen day".
The tin lithograph buildings are beautiful and create just the right feeling of TOY trains I enjoy the most!
Thanks for watching. The tin Built EZ and Tin Town High Rise buildings make a great "tinplate" back drop.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator I mostly prefer the later era GG1 in Amtrak phase 1 and Conrail paint schemes but if I had to take my pic of which of the classic paint schemes look the best I would say that the Brunswick green with five stripes probably looks the best although the Tuscan with five stripes is also pretty close. I honestly like the five stripes version better than the single stripe version. Single stripe doesn’t look as complete in my opinion as if it is just not as grand as the five stripe version and is a little bit too simple.
@@lucasquintanilla1673 I guess it is a matter of what era you formed your collecting taste in. I always prefer the "original" or pre-merger railroads, PRR, NYC, CMStP&P, B&O.....the list goes on. I have a lot of respect for the Union Pacific, because I believe it is the only "original" road name that still exists in the USA.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator union pacific is some thing that I respect as well. Although up until just a year or so ago, Canadian pacific and Kansas City Southern were still around although you can definitely still see their diesels if you know where to look, they’ve just started making the new paint schemes in the last few months. Canadian national would be the only original railroad left other than union pacific. I kind of like the modern Canadian national paint schemes, although I only know a little bit about the steam era for Canadian national. I do know they had some interesting looking streamliners. I really do like Union Pacific and I’m probably going to have a combination of modern and classic union pacific so imagine stuff like big boy 4014, 844 and the 49er along with modern diesels.
EXCELLENT!!!! I really hope your neighbors and friends appreciate your talents and skills.
Thanks for watching. Deer, Owls and Eagles are our neighbors here.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator what is one locomotive you wish you could have a model of but you don’t? As for my self I’ve mentioned multiple times that I love the streamliners, but when it comes to engines that they don’t make models in at least in O gauge really wish that there were British and foreign locomotives out there you could get from Lionel. I wish I could get a flying Scotsman, the locomotive Dwight D Eisenhower, city of turro, or the World War II era engines from the southern railway, as well as some British rail standard classes. The American engine I wish we had the most in O gauge that we don’t is probably the United States Army transportation corps locomotives from World War II such as the S160 which were sent across the world, such as Britain, China, the state of Alaska and Eastern Europe, as well as Germany and France. In the present day, there are several that are in operation, most of which are actually in great Britain, although one is an operation in North Carolina as it has been cosmetically altered to look like a typical American steam locomotive and another is almost finished with its restoration to operational condition in Alaska. I’m honestly surprised why neither MTH, nor lionel made O gauge models of it because, they’ve made so many of the world war, one era locomotives that I’m honestly shocked that they didn’t do these engines. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, despite being of the same class of engine, their appearances could vary wildly depending upon which country they were in because they were quite modular, and the engines that are in Britain look a lot different from ones in America which in turn look a lot different from ones in China.
@@lucasquintanilla1673 Hard to say. Hudsons, GG-1's, F-3's and GP7's are probably my favorites, plus turbines, Pacifics........I already have too many of each. I don't have any of the articulated steamers, but the LS Ry does have a budget it has to try and stay within.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator all really interesting choices. Honestly, if I had to make a guess as to what the locomotives you would be most likely to get if you had the chance would’ve been either the Hudson version of the Milwaukee Rd., Hiawatha, which looks a bit different than the Atlantic version or maybe big boy because I think you once mentioned that you would like big boy if you had the money
I never owned a GG1, but they look pretty cool with the precious cargo. Thanks for sharing the neat gold cars. -Steve
Growing up the kid next door had a 2-motor GG1, I had my Milwaukee Rd 2338 GP7. I never got a GG1 as a kid, so I am making up for that now. Thanks for watching, Steve.
Cool Mint cars and GG-1s! I love that Congressional set.
Thanks for watching.
Awesome video !!!
Thanks Sweetie!
Love the GG1 did not know they made so many mint cars we had the silver version in early 60 s
Thanks. I am sure that there are some I am missing, but ran what I had. My favorite is the glossy blue TCA 25th Anniversary car.
Fun video. You know you could have called this "There's Gold on Them Thar Rails". I first saw a real Pennsy GG-1 back in the summer of 69 in NYC. I was taking the Sourthern Crescent to New Orleans and it was on the head end to take us to DC. Then our local RR Museum, Age of Steam, has one on display. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching. The last GG1 I saw was from our hotel window in Lancaster Pa when there for a TCA York train meet.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator i’ve seen two GG1’s actually in person. The first one was a Amtrak era GG1 at the St. Louis Museum of transportation, although it was in a sorry state. It was covered in rust by that point, even if it was tucked away at the back of a pavilion with a covered ceiling to prevent further deterioration. it was explicitly stated that it was a Amtrak era GG1 and after doing some research both on the Museum website and other sources I discovered that during the Amtrak era it still had its pen central black paint scheme with the exception of white Amtrak lettering on it as the Penn Central pretzel logo wasn’t there anymore when it was in use on Amtrak. The other GG1 I saw was in much better condition and it was at the national railroad museum in Green Bay Wisconsin, and it was in classic Pennsylvania railroad colors with Tuscan red and several gold pinstripes on it. It was next to a few other engines like a Korean war era steam locomotive that had been built during World War I as well as Union Pacific big boy 4012 and most notably a British steam locomotive that was the locomotive that pulled Eisenhowers command train in Great Britain in the lead up to D-Day. That engine is of the same class that Mallard is and it’s the only streamlined steam locomotive I’ve seen in person. It’s named Dwight D Eisenhower as it was named that right after the war although before that it was named golden shuttle. It’s in a 1950s postwar Brunswick green paint scheme.
@@lucasquintanilla1673 I did not see your comments at first as you are replying to comments of others.
@@JFLionelT-RailOperator no problem with that I understand. In terms of my collecting tastes, for the era, I like a combination of late steam and streamlined diesels and steam engines along with some of the merger era railroads. Burlington northern, Chessie system, Amtrak, via rail, Erie Lackawanna, Conrail, and post 1960 union pacific is the sort of things I like. pre-1960 stuff that I enjoy the most are New York Central, Santa Fe, union pacific and Norfolk and western although I like some Norfolk and western diesels as well. I am pretty much intending for my layout to probably be a combination of pre-and post 1960 stuff so I might have stuff like yellow bonnet Santa Fe diesels, and red war bonnet diesels, considering I always liked the look of the yellow bonnet, diesels on my old train VHS cassettes when I was a kid and of course you can’t get much better than a red war bonnet. I was also inspired by some late steam era operations like in China and Mexico, which had unusual sights like steam engines, working in tandem with diesels like the SD40-2 or GP diesels of a similar era or engines that looked visually like them. Probably I might do stuff like having Santa Fe steam engines, assisting yellow bonnet, GP, diesels or SD 40 -2’s be simulated or vice versa. Perhaps the thing that would be most interesting, would be using the bicentennial and American freedom train engines for stuff like a simulated vintage Amtrak.
Mint Cars In Mint Condition, Did You Attend The 25th TCA Convention? If 1979 Was The 25th, Then This Past One In Lancaster Was The 70th. 1979 Was Monumental Year, February 2021,
Retired, These GG1s Run So Good On T Rail, Of Course Every Thing Runs Well On T Rail.
One Day I Need To Get Out That Way, Hope All Goes Well Next Month.
Yes I did attend the 25th in Anaheim, was able to schedule a business trip to LA. I once had the coin with my original example of this car, but no longer have it. I think the coin was only available at the convention. The "Mint" GG1's have 2 motors and Magne-Traction, so run as well as the mid-1950's ones.
I must have missed the NECCO Mints Car.
Yea, that was made special for the CCCA (Candy Collector's Club of America). I hear that a wealthy dentist bought them all "for our own good" so they are impossible to find. I liked the chocolate Neccos best.
Man I wish I could get a hold of some T rail. It would handle everything I want to run.
Would you happen to know what code the rail is? If it's equivalent to code 250
Not sure how to figure rail code. T-rail is close to the same height as O gauge tubular rail, so would be considered Hi-Rail.