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| Author: | Rovronr [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | GG-1/2 |
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 7&nseq=208 |
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| Author: | Les Beckman [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
Jim - Kind of surprising that no museum acquired this unit. Les |
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| Author: | G. W. Laepple [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
Following PRR's locomotive classifications, wouldn't this thing be a G-6? |
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| Author: | wilkinsd [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
I kind of like the Trains magazine caption in their "Railroad News Photos" when this unit first appeared: "wouldn't two of these make a great locomotive?" |
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| Author: | dinwitty [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
reminds me of N&W's switcher mods. What would have caused this bit of freak bashing? Not to just cut a gg1 in half, maybe it was in a wreck and use the good half like this? |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
For whatever reason (maybe cracked frames?), the rest of the loco this came from 4846, was scrapped in March 1967, a year after the first three to be retired (4804/4831/4847). |
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| Author: | baldwin [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
That GG1 hit track work equipment and was wrecked, they took the good end and made that snow blower in the picture. I remember seeing a picture years ago of that G with the work equipment impaled in the front of it. |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
baldwin wrote: That GG1 hit track work equipment and was wrecked, they took the good end and made that snow blower in the picture. I remember seeing a picture years ago of that G with the work equipment impaled in the front of it. No. That wreck happened in the Amtrak/Penn Central era (and despite having the Complete Trains on my computer, I haven't found the news photo in question yet.....). |
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| Author: | DBH [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
I remember reading about this Loco & I believe it was used as a shop switcher. DBH |
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| Author: | wilkinsd [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote: baldwin wrote: That GG1 hit track work equipment and was wrecked, they took the good end and made that snow blower in the picture. I remember seeing a picture years ago of that G with the work equipment impaled in the front of it. No. That wreck happened in the Amtrak/Penn Central era (and despite having the Complete Trains on my computer, I haven't found the news photo in question yet.....). Please refer to the April 1971 issue of Trains magazine, page 14. |
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| Author: | filmteknik [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
Of course it would not be called a GG-1/2 but rather a G-something since G was PRR's 4-6-0 designation and GG was like two back to back. Too bad that thing doesn't turn up in a forgotten corner of a scrap yard. There'd be your transformer and switch group. Steve |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
wilkinsd wrote: Please refer to the April 1971 issue of Trains magazine, page 14. Those are photos of the "GG-1/2" after completion by Wilmington, not the photo of the GG1 with a track maintenance machine impaled on its front......... |
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| Author: | baldwin [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote: wilkinsd wrote: Please refer to the April 1971 issue of Trains magazine, page 14. Those are photos of the "GG-1/2" after completion by Wilmington, not the photo of the GG1 with a track maintenance machine impaled on its front......... I think I saw the picture in the book The Remarkable GG1. |
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| Author: | Richard Glueck [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: GG-1/2 |
The Remarkable GG1 is where the image is. She was used as a snow blower in the Wilmington yard. I believe it was subsequently scrapped. Interesting though, like her steam sisters, used to clear snow after revenue service ended. |
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