luckily, i think there are 3 GG1's still around, 2 being rusted on a abandoned track, and another fully restored. no idea if it runs. it was restored for amtraks 50th anniversary.
4877 is has been fully restored in the Pennsy Black Scheme and is rumored to be on display at South Amboy or Aberdeen-Matawan. Alstom wants to restore her with new technology but look and run as she used to
An additional verse I came across a few years ago: "Of all of the electrics, the Corridor has seen From E60s to the Sprinters, back to the Haven's EP-3's No matter strength or power, there's one important fact For style, speed, and smoothness, GG1's had no real match".
GG1 will forever be the OpenTTDs version of a DC-3. There is no replacement for a GG1 in that game, not until you get the HHP-8 you can start to phase out those old GG1s. And even then they are like old tractors, you still keep them around due to a nice balance of speed to pulling power. The diesels you get until the 2000s requires so many engines to get the speed and acceleration of a GG1 that you are robbed of maximum train length and it starts to hurt your profits. (OpenTTD you will have a maximum train length to contend with due to platform sizing.)
The GG1 needs almost no introduction being one of the most famous and successful electric locomotives in the whole of the United States just like the F40PH, but to understand how it gained such a fan base and how most of them run express services on commuter rail lines, and intercity service on Amtrak. This means that I love the GG1s for running express service on New Jersey Transit.
Much better than the Milwaukee Roads Bi-Polar electrics which the Milwaukee could have replaced them with the GE built GG1’s that ran on the Pennsylvania railroad, then Penn Central,Conrail, Amtrak & New Jersey Transit. Railroad management of the Pennsylvania in the 1930’s was much & far better than the Milwaukee Roads management.
The GG1 electric was the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad was the GG1 which ran on the Northeast Corridor from Washington to New York City which was their money maker for passenger service.
These were legendary locomotives, and it's a shame that we won't ever see one operate again. Not only that these locomotives had a history of frame cracking and also their transformers used a coolant which had PCBs. PCBs were heavily banned in the late 70s I read somewhere online and the final GG1s were retired in the early 1980s. 16 still survive today, but the only one that remains in near mint condition is the 4935 at the museum at Strasburg, PA. It could actually possibly run if a transformer was in place and if a different coolant without PCBs can be designed to operate the unit. Also if the electrical system has no shorts and no frame cracks. If there are cracks in the frame, than it's pretty much done for. I don't think that anyone would even attempt to restore a GG1, but I wish some rail preservation association should at least try to bring a GG1 to life again.
@Daniel Smutek Yeah, I was told by someone at the museum at Strasburg that enable to bring a GG1 back to life, the entire locomotive will have to be rewired with wiring to meet federal standards, a new transformer will have to be made because the original ones were removed due to PCB contamination and with a new transformer in place and design a coolant without PCBs. Also I'm pretty sure the voltage was changed along the Northeast Corridor, and in the Pennsylvania railroad days, the GG1 did run there, but with modern electrical equipment, a GG1 couldn't run without massive short outs and things. I'm sure it can be done, but it all falls to how much money you want to spend. The GG1 was a beautiful and legendary locomotive, but I doubt that anyone will spend the money to get one to run.
@@ns4270railfan Well, if the recreation of the T1 by the T1 trust is anything to go off of, are enough train enthusiasts with money who could help get GG1 back in action
@@maxstirnersego That's true. Since the GG1 survivors had their transformers removed after being retired, a new one will have to be built from scratch and have it cooled from a substance that has no PCBs. Also the engine will have to be completely rewired to meet federal standards. It just depends on how much money rail preservation societies or rail enthusiasts want to spend to try to get a GG1 to run again.
@@ns4270railfan from what I've heard living along the Northeast Corridor for the better part of 18 years, Amtrak planned to change the frequency but never actually did. People always said a Big Boy couldn't be restored, or that a T1 would never see the high iron again. Who knows what the future holds?
' You can visit old 4877 in Boonton, NJ. The outside has been restored and painted back to Brunswick Green; I got a complete tour about 5 years ago, (inside and out). There is also another GG1 on site!'
Great video of the Pennsylvania railroad GG1 number 4877. I used to see many of the GG1’s on the Pennsylvania later Penn Central, Conrail pull many passenger & freight trains on the Northeast Corridor line. The GG1 was the Pennsylvania railroads most famous electric locomotive. The Milwaukee Road could have purchased from GE GG1 electric locomotives if they wanted to like the Pennsylvania railroad did. As a model railroad of the N scale Pacific West Coast model railroad which is my railroad it looks like I will be buying a Kato N scale GG1 electric locomotive for use in excursion service and on display. The song is great.
(before you start reading this... please accept my apologies for all typos I've done...as i was very excited in writing and probably did not fix/catch them all - thanks).... anyway....i rememeber this engine with literal "lust and love".... so much so that when I was 10... I wanted to "marry" one....when I grew up. I'm 66 1/2 now.... and I have a ton of fond memories of this engine along with the pemsy r.r. system. i was born and raised in Baltimore md. in 1955.... and when I was 3 (so I was told over the years), my mom...would hand me over to my grandfather...who by then had about 15 years working for the pennsy ...as a station man pulling mail from U.S.P.S. mail cars (used heavily back in the day on railroads).. and luggage from the baggage cars from many a passenger train ...that came into and out of "Pennsylvania railroad station" in Baltimore, MD. when I was 3.... my grandfather would walk me all around the station.....i met and greeted tons of station workers....they used to tease him (I was told all of this)...but tease my gandpop about my fascination with this "big engine"...how i'd stop in my tracks of walking... turn my head all the way around when I not only heard the infamous horn sound... the unmistakable "ding-ding-ding".. of the engines bell as it'd slip into or our of the station...but even after it'd stop the dinging.... i'd still know a GG1 by it's infamous eltrcial engine whine/deep hum sound of the engine itself. it drove me absolutely nuts...crazy... then as I got older.... the feelings grew even stronger.... i remember this stuff myself.... as by the time i was 9 years old... i was such a "regular" / mainstay at the station... walking all through "the bowels", the nooks and crannies of the station... knew where everything was... i would even sometimes partially drive the lead engine unit of the mail/luggae carts that would zip up and down the train platforms... to and from train either before unloading a baggage car... or afterward... to pul the "train of luggage carts"... back into the station... so the luggage for could be sorrted and sent upstairs on the conveyor belts... to the station hall up there.... so passengers could get their luggage... or if it was mail bags....that they were put on maial trucks waiting outside.... to take the mail across the street to the main railroad post office - next to the train station...!!! i was around all of that as a kid. but my main "fetish"....(that i didn't know was a fetish - nor even knew what that word meant back then!!)....was the big and mighty GG1. I've seen them in all paint schemes.... from brusnwick green to deep red.... to all black with a single yellow stripe... to the bicentenial silver paint scheme.... etc.... i was a true "GG1-NUT"... FOR ME....THAT ENGINE WAS ALL I'D THINK ABOUT.... in school, while i did ok in grade school... in any spare time... i'd do my best to draw them.... anything... i could do to remind me of how mighty they were.... then... for my 10th birthday... (October 5th 1965).... my grandfather told me i could finally get up into one of the baggage cars...!!!! with him and his other crew...to get mail bags off, throw them off the car onto the train platform or the carts, etc. i did that for a while....but i knew that this actual baggage car was butted up/hooked up to the GG1 engine pulling this train. so... i slipped away for a bit to that end of the baggage car... got a box... stood up on it... and stared thru the glass window of that train car... and looked directly into the "eye of the GG1 engine" (the headlight on the back end of the engine...that was coupled to the baggea car).... i could hear and FEEL!!! the hum of the motor and it literally "hypnotized" me. it was like i was in a trance.... looking, gazing... drooling.... at this huge train engine right in front of me.. well... i was so in-tranced that i didn't hear my grandfather calling out for me... that they were done.... taking off stuff for this Baltimore md. station stop.... and they were about to get off that car...as the train was ready to go. at the same time.... since i didn't answer.... he thought i had already jumped/gotten off that car of the train...and was hanging out with the other guys...somewhere on the track platform.... BUT I WASN'T...!!! I WAS STILL ON THE TRAIN...!!! so they clossed/slammed the door of the baggage car shut.... and a few quick moments later.... i felt a tug and a jerk.. and a lurch or 2..... and the train started to leave...slowly accelerate thru the station... past the end of the platform.... picked up a little speed... and as i looked out a side window.... it went into the long tunnel out of the train station area... and it picked up speed... and before i knew it.... i was a "STOWAWAY"... on a pennsy system passenger train baggage car.... now flying along..... and having a ball..!! i was jumping... singing... and "wowing it".. as i was on my way to the next station stop..... and i knew it was going to be Wilmington DE. and guess what... it was late at night... the train had left Baltimore on time... at 11:15 pm...!!! and due in Wilmington at 12:40am..!!! it was a Saturday night.... and... as i was later told...my grandfather totally panicked... on the platform... as the train had pulled out with me on it.... and he realized... i wasn't anywhere on the platform.... and his co-workers said that he yelled out.." HE'S ON THAT TRAIN...!!!!!"... as loud as he could. needless to say (as i was told...) my grandmother gave him holy hell... yelled his ass off... about how could he let me out of his sight..... but what they all didn't realize.... that i kinda-sorta...had it planned to be a "hobo" for a night...!! THEN.... my family had already called the pennsy system...etc. and told them to look for me... when the train got to Wilmington de. "pull me off by my ears"...and set me up for the trip back to Baltimore later that night (morning)... as train services back in that day literally ran all night... and there was a mail express train due to stop in Wilmington at 1:30am....going back south to Baltimore. so they put me on that train and my long night of "train hobo-ism" at 10 years old continued. and yes... the mail express was pulled by what... "A.. G" !!! if there is such a thing as a "7th heaven"... then i was there that night... my love for the G grew and grew... to the point i turned to my folks one day and said...."i want to marry a GG1".... please grandpa....PLEASE... when i get old enough... they asked me over and over.... would i want to be a train driver/engineer... and weirdly... i'd always say no... that all i wanted to do was look, hear and feel it thunder past me... when it'd come in or leave.... and needless to say... i went on countless trips up and down the northeast corridor to NY... NJ., PHILA, etc.... on the pennsy... my favorite "consists" were "the admiral"....."the senator"... "the silver meteor and silver star".... "the southerner" (part of southern railroads system back then)... and my most favorite GG1 driven train was the super specialized (for it's time in history)... "THE KEYSTONE"..!!!!!!... with it's up/down - split level passenger cars. oh my they were so so sooooooo cool to ride on and to look at ... it was such a special train consist.... just hot!!! anyway... this is just a partial set of my GG1 connection(s).... my love for it exists today... at 66 years old.... if i were a "trillionaire"...(bot just a billionaire).... i'd build out a whole brand new set of electrified tracks... find / pull every single example of GG1 engine from museums... rail yards...rusted out or not.... but.. find them... 100% restore them.... plus!!!... BUILD OUT brand new replica GG1 engines.... running on new - up to date train engine systems... but the outside shell would be that of AUTHENTIC GG1 LOOK.... find as many older "streamlined" passenger cars as i could.... and also have about 100 new ones made up... to look like they did back int he day... some with dome cars, etc.... and build out a new private "pennsy railroad" system......have service run from say Atlanta... east to say Columbia SC. up thru Fayetteville NC. thru raleigh NC... up the "i-95" highway corridor....into Washington DC...BALTIMORE MD. ..on up to Boston MA.....then have a branch to shoot off west from Baltimore MD....thru WEST VA. and points west thru OH. Indiana...up to Chicgao....then non-stop west to seattle... then down the west coast not just to sandiego... but to Tijuana MEXICO!!!.. my GG1 service would be world renowned for emasculate services on board, accommodations and....all out old fashioned train experience - re-created in the 21st century!!!... ok, ok... just a stupid.... wild dream.... but...WHO KNOWS...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@RustBeltRailfan no not this specific engine. But it was my beloved love of all... a P.R.R. GG1. I still have tons of memories of being pulled by them....up and down the northeast corridor....Baltimore to Manhattan NY. I remember certain consists...."the keystone"...(with those specialized tubular steel passenger cars that were 2 levels of seating within each coach).. I rode the "congressional"... "Pennsylvanian".... "silver meteor & star"... I rode on the electrified segment of the "Broadway limited"...and i rode on countless no name trains....some with just numbers...some labeled as "specials".... but all pulled by the mighty GG1. I hated the E60's... then the AEM 7's... I only loved GG1 services.....
Ah yes, the GG1, one of the greatest locomotives of all time. The pennsy was a good railroad. I like the new york central better than the pennsy, but i still like the pennsy.
I'd love to see a GG1 hit one of these smoke belching status symbol pickup trucks at 100 mph into several billion pieces. The railroads built this magnificent country. The automotive robber barons and complete car centricism destroyed it along with all of the small businesses. Railroads and highbspeed passenger rail equals freedom. Forced car ownership with no transportation alternatives equal bondage and slavery. Car payments, insurance, expensive gas , endless road rage and gridlock. I'll take the train any day. Europe isnt densely populated and has a fantastic rail system. Put people to work building the rails. Make America great by building a real passenger rail system. End car centricism. The cities are crumbling and people are dying every day because of car accidents. This is a completely non partisan issue.
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Saw the GG1s running in the Washington DC corridor in the late 70s-early 80s on a regular basis. What a magnificent beast!
I hope one day in our lives, A GG1 can be sucessfully restored.
luckily, i think there are 3 GG1's still around, 2 being rusted on a abandoned track, and another fully restored. no idea if it runs. it was restored for amtraks 50th anniversary.
4877 is has been fully restored in the Pennsy Black Scheme and is rumored to be on display at South Amboy or Aberdeen-Matawan. Alstom wants to restore her with new technology but look and run as she used to
@@JerseyShoreRailfan poggers!
@@JerseyShoreRailfan that would be nuts!
This is a certified hood classic
Yes, The memories of riding the Congressional behind a "G". Pop worked for the PRR for 45 yrs, really liked the GG1.
40 years ago songs were kind of art
The GG-1 was one of the most famous items styled by the great Raymond Loewy!
Later in his life Raymond Loewy said that the GG1 was one of his greatest accomplishments.
50 years of service an impressive record of service
An additional verse I came across a few years ago:
"Of all of the electrics, the Corridor has seen
From E60s to the Sprinters, back to the Haven's EP-3's
No matter strength or power, there's one important fact
For style, speed, and smoothness, GG1's had no real match".
GG1 will forever be the OpenTTDs version of a DC-3.
There is no replacement for a GG1 in that game, not until you get the HHP-8 you can start to phase out those old GG1s.
And even then they are like old tractors, you still keep them around due to a nice balance of speed to pulling power.
The diesels you get until the 2000s requires so many engines to get the speed and acceleration of a GG1 that you are robbed of maximum train length and it starts to hurt your profits. (OpenTTD you will have a maximum train length to contend with due to platform sizing.)
The GG1 needs almost no introduction being one of the most famous and successful electric locomotives in the whole of the United States just like the F40PH, but to understand how it gained such a fan base and how most of them run express services on commuter rail lines, and intercity service on Amtrak. This means that I love the GG1s for running express service on New Jersey Transit.
This bad boi right here went 100 mph long before diesels were in their prime!
best electric locomotive
there is nothing better
Much better than the Milwaukee Roads Bi-Polar electrics which the Milwaukee could have replaced them with the GE built GG1’s that ran on the Pennsylvania railroad, then Penn Central,Conrail, Amtrak & New Jersey Transit. Railroad management of the Pennsylvania in the 1930’s was much & far better than the Milwaukee Roads management.
@@christopherorourke6543 yeah I agree, but the bi-polars are still pretty cool looking
The GG1 electric was the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad was the GG1 which ran on the Northeast Corridor from Washington to New York City which was their money maker for passenger service.
Best non-European electric locomotive
Would love to add another one of these to my collection
These were legendary locomotives, and it's a shame that we won't ever see one operate again. Not only that these locomotives had a history of frame cracking and also their transformers used a coolant which had PCBs. PCBs were heavily banned in the late 70s I read somewhere online and the final GG1s were retired in the early 1980s. 16 still survive today, but the only one that remains in near mint condition is the 4935 at the museum at Strasburg, PA. It could actually possibly run if a transformer was in place and if a different coolant without PCBs can be designed to operate the unit. Also if the electrical system has no shorts and no frame cracks. If there are cracks in the frame, than it's pretty much done for. I don't think that anyone would even attempt to restore a GG1, but I wish some rail preservation association should at least try to bring a GG1 to life again.
@Daniel Smutek Yeah, I was told by someone at the museum at Strasburg that enable to bring a GG1 back to life, the entire locomotive will have to be rewired with wiring to meet federal standards, a new transformer will have to be made because the original ones were removed due to PCB contamination and with a new transformer in place and design a coolant without PCBs. Also I'm pretty sure the voltage was changed along the Northeast Corridor, and in the Pennsylvania railroad days, the GG1 did run there, but with modern electrical equipment, a GG1 couldn't run without massive short outs and things. I'm sure it can be done, but it all falls to how much money you want to spend. The GG1 was a beautiful and legendary locomotive, but I doubt that anyone will spend the money to get one to run.
@@ns4270railfan Well, if the recreation of the T1 by the T1 trust is anything to go off of, are enough train enthusiasts with money who could help get GG1 back in action
@@maxstirnersego That's true. Since the GG1 survivors had their transformers removed after being retired, a new one will have to be built from scratch and have it cooled from a substance that has no PCBs. Also the engine will have to be completely rewired to meet federal standards. It just depends on how much money rail preservation societies or rail enthusiasts want to spend to try to get a GG1 to run again.
@@maxstirnersego Probably not. The new T1 won't need a catenary system to operate.
@@ns4270railfan from what I've heard living along the Northeast Corridor for the better part of 18 years, Amtrak planned to change the frequency but never actually did. People always said a Big Boy couldn't be restored, or that a T1 would never see the high iron again. Who knows what the future holds?
Came here after HitD’s video. Good song.
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You can visit old 4877 in Boonton, NJ. The outside has been restored and painted back to Brunswick Green; I got a complete tour about 5 years ago, (inside and out). There is also another GG1 on site!'
I've just got so much pleasure from this piece of art!
I love this
It gives credit to the amazing GG1s
Finally, a semi-clean version of this song. Thank you
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Great video of the Pennsylvania railroad GG1 number 4877. I used to see many of the GG1’s on the Pennsylvania later Penn Central, Conrail pull many passenger & freight trains on the Northeast Corridor line. The GG1 was the Pennsylvania railroads most famous electric locomotive. The Milwaukee Road could have purchased from GE GG1 electric locomotives if they wanted to like the Pennsylvania railroad did. As a model railroad of the N scale Pacific West Coast model railroad which is my railroad it looks like I will be buying a Kato N scale GG1 electric locomotive for use in excursion service and on display. The song is great.
I was trained to run them but never had the pleasure. Never an engineer fatality on one.
(before you start reading this... please accept my apologies for all typos I've done...as i was very excited in writing and probably did not fix/catch them all - thanks).... anyway....i rememeber this engine with literal "lust and love".... so much so that when I was 10... I wanted to "marry" one....when I grew up. I'm 66 1/2 now.... and I have a ton of fond memories of this engine along with the pemsy r.r. system. i was born and raised in Baltimore md. in 1955.... and when I was 3 (so I was told over the years), my mom...would hand me over to my grandfather...who by then had about 15 years working for the pennsy ...as a station man pulling mail from U.S.P.S. mail cars (used heavily back in the day on railroads).. and luggage from the baggage cars from many a passenger train ...that came into and out of "Pennsylvania railroad station" in Baltimore, MD. when I was 3.... my grandfather would walk me all around the station.....i met and greeted tons of station workers....they used to tease him (I was told all of this)...but tease my gandpop about my fascination with this "big engine"...how i'd stop in my tracks of walking... turn my head all the way around when I not only heard the infamous horn sound... the unmistakable "ding-ding-ding".. of the engines bell as it'd slip into or our of the station...but even after it'd stop the dinging.... i'd still know a GG1 by it's infamous eltrcial engine whine/deep hum sound of the engine itself. it drove me absolutely nuts...crazy... then as I got older.... the feelings grew even stronger.... i remember this stuff myself.... as by the time i was 9 years old... i was such a "regular" / mainstay at the station... walking all through "the bowels", the nooks and crannies of the station... knew where everything was... i would even sometimes partially drive the lead engine unit of the mail/luggae carts that would zip up and down the train platforms... to and from train either before unloading a baggage car... or afterward... to pul the "train of luggage carts"... back into the station... so the luggage for could be sorrted and sent upstairs on the conveyor belts... to the station hall up there.... so passengers could get their luggage... or if it was mail bags....that they were put on maial trucks waiting outside.... to take the mail across the street to the main railroad post office - next to the train station...!!! i was around all of that as a kid. but my main "fetish"....(that i didn't know was a fetish - nor even knew what that word meant back then!!)....was the big and mighty GG1. I've seen them in all paint schemes.... from brusnwick green to deep red.... to all black with a single yellow stripe... to the bicentenial silver paint scheme.... etc.... i was a true "GG1-NUT"... FOR ME....THAT ENGINE WAS ALL I'D THINK ABOUT.... in school, while i did ok in grade school... in any spare time... i'd do my best to draw them.... anything... i could do to remind me of how mighty they were.... then... for my 10th birthday... (October 5th 1965).... my grandfather told me i could finally get up into one of the baggage cars...!!!! with him and his other crew...to get mail bags off, throw them off the car onto the train platform or the carts, etc. i did that for a while....but i knew that this actual baggage car was butted up/hooked up to the GG1 engine pulling this train. so... i slipped away for a bit to that end of the baggage car... got a box... stood up on it... and stared thru the glass window of that train car... and looked directly into the "eye of the GG1 engine" (the headlight on the back end of the engine...that was coupled to the baggea car).... i could hear and FEEL!!! the hum of the motor and it literally "hypnotized" me. it was like i was in a trance.... looking, gazing... drooling.... at this huge train engine right in front of me.. well... i was so in-tranced that i didn't hear my grandfather calling out for me... that they were done.... taking off stuff for this Baltimore md. station stop.... and they were about to get off that car...as the train was ready to go. at the same time.... since i didn't answer.... he thought i had already jumped/gotten off that car of the train...and was hanging out with the other guys...somewhere on the track platform.... BUT I WASN'T...!!! I WAS STILL ON THE TRAIN...!!! so they clossed/slammed the door of the baggage car shut.... and a few quick moments later.... i felt a tug and a jerk.. and a lurch or 2..... and the train started to leave...slowly accelerate thru the station... past the end of the platform.... picked up a little speed... and as i looked out a side window.... it went into the long tunnel out of the train station area... and it picked up speed... and before i knew it.... i was a "STOWAWAY"... on a pennsy system passenger train baggage car.... now flying along..... and having a ball..!! i was jumping... singing... and "wowing it".. as i was on my way to the next station stop..... and i knew it was going to be Wilmington DE. and guess what... it was late at night... the train had left Baltimore on time... at 11:15 pm...!!! and due in Wilmington at 12:40am..!!! it was a Saturday night.... and... as i was later told...my grandfather totally panicked... on the platform... as the train had pulled out with me on it.... and he realized... i wasn't anywhere on the platform.... and his co-workers said that he yelled out.." HE'S ON THAT TRAIN...!!!!!"... as loud as he could. needless to say (as i was told...) my grandmother gave him holy hell... yelled his ass off... about how could he let me out of his sight..... but what they all didn't realize.... that i kinda-sorta...had it planned to be a "hobo" for a night...!! THEN.... my family had already called the pennsy system...etc. and told them to look for me... when the train got to Wilmington de. "pull me off by my ears"...and set me up for the trip back to Baltimore later that night (morning)... as train services back in that day literally ran all night... and there was a mail express train due to stop in Wilmington at 1:30am....going back south to Baltimore. so they put me on that train and my long night of "train hobo-ism" at 10 years old continued. and yes... the mail express was pulled by what... "A.. G" !!! if there is such a thing as a "7th heaven"... then i was there that night... my love for the G grew and grew... to the point i turned to my folks one day and said...."i want to marry a GG1".... please grandpa....PLEASE... when i get old enough... they asked me over and over.... would i want to be a train driver/engineer... and weirdly... i'd always say no... that all i wanted to do was look, hear and feel it thunder past me... when it'd come in or leave.... and needless to say... i went on countless trips up and down the northeast corridor to NY... NJ., PHILA, etc.... on the pennsy... my favorite "consists" were "the admiral"....."the senator"... "the silver meteor and silver star".... "the southerner" (part of southern railroads system back then)... and my most favorite GG1 driven train was the super specialized (for it's time in history)... "THE KEYSTONE"..!!!!!!... with it's up/down - split level passenger cars. oh my they were so so sooooooo cool to ride on and to look at ... it was such a special train consist.... just hot!!! anyway... this is just a partial set of my GG1 connection(s).... my love for it exists today... at 66 years old.... if i were a "trillionaire"...(bot just a billionaire).... i'd build out a whole brand new set of electrified tracks... find / pull every single example of GG1 engine from museums... rail yards...rusted out or not.... but.. find them... 100% restore them.... plus!!!... BUILD OUT brand new replica GG1 engines.... running on new - up to date train engine systems... but the outside shell would be that of AUTHENTIC GG1 LOOK.... find as many older "streamlined" passenger cars as i could.... and also have about 100 new ones made up... to look like they did back int he day... some with dome cars, etc.... and build out a new private "pennsy railroad" system......have service run from say Atlanta... east to say Columbia SC. up thru Fayetteville NC. thru raleigh NC... up the "i-95" highway corridor....into Washington DC...BALTIMORE MD. ..on up to Boston MA.....then have a branch to shoot off west from Baltimore MD....thru WEST VA. and points west thru OH. Indiana...up to Chicgao....then non-stop west to seattle... then down the west coast not just to sandiego... but to Tijuana MEXICO!!!.. my GG1 service would be world renowned for emasculate services on board, accommodations and....all out old fashioned train experience - re-created in the 21st century!!!... ok, ok... just a stupid.... wild dream.... but...WHO KNOWS...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@RustBeltRailfan no not this specific engine. But it was my beloved love of all...
a P.R.R. GG1. I still have tons of memories of being pulled by them....up and down the northeast corridor....Baltimore to Manhattan NY. I remember certain consists...."the keystone"...(with those specialized tubular steel passenger cars that were 2 levels of seating within each coach).. I rode the "congressional"... "Pennsylvanian".... "silver meteor & star"... I rode on the electrified segment of the "Broadway limited"...and i rode on countless no name trains....some with just numbers...some labeled as "specials".... but all pulled by the mighty GG1. I hated the E60's... then the AEM 7's... I only loved GG1 services.....
Ah yes, the GG1, one of the greatest locomotives of all time. The pennsy was a good railroad. I like the new york central better than the pennsy, but i still like the pennsy.
I'd love to see a GG1 hit one of these smoke belching status symbol pickup trucks at 100 mph into several billion pieces. The railroads built this magnificent country. The automotive robber barons and complete car centricism destroyed it along with all of the small businesses. Railroads and highbspeed passenger rail equals freedom. Forced car ownership with no transportation alternatives equal bondage and slavery. Car payments, insurance, expensive gas , endless road rage and gridlock. I'll take the train any day. Europe isnt densely populated and has a fantastic rail system. Put people to work building the rails. Make America great by building a real passenger rail system. End car centricism. The cities are crumbling and people are dying every day because of car accidents. This is a completely non partisan issue.
Especially those high rider pick up trucks whose drivers love tailgating for fun & enjoyment.
If someone has the sheet music for this song I would love a link to it. I wanna learn it to honor these legendary locomotives
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What happened to the singer and band?
lol I’m your only subscriber
Sad because ended...
3:23 twin towers!
Some lyrics are missing and some sung wrong. Either way, it's decent