GG-1 Question

Joe,

   The lines ran right thru the covered stations also.  Road the military transport from just outside Harrisburg to Ft Dix, NJ.   The big GG-1 never even slowed up for the towns, one of the fastest rides of my young life.

PCRR/Dave

If you look at photos of stations like Harrisburg or 30th Street in Philly, you can see that the shed roofs are higher than the catenary, so the GG1 or any other more recent electric, just continues on as if nothing has changed.

From the overhead wires, just like normal. The PRR electrification, i.e. the overhead wires, even ran through the Hudson River tunnels and right into Pennsylvania Station in New York City.

Thanks guys.

Joe,

A couple of pics for your review.  Also, there was a good article a while back about Catenary and it showed how the modeler lowered the wire to the level of the entrance to a shed.  This pushed down the pantograph so the engine could enter.  I can't remember what run it was in.  It might have been Run 264 - June/July 2013 and wouldn't you know I can't find that copy in my piles around the house.

Ron

 Catenary into NY Penn Station

You can see the catenary go through this covered station.

Thanks Ron.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

The more interesting question is what happens to the steam generator exhaust when the GG1 is stopped in an  enclosed station.   Most often the GG1 is in the open, but occasionally it must be stopped in the enclosed area.  The only specific area I can think of is inbound into Penn Station from Jersey.  The open area was on west end and east end was completely underground.  Also thru the Hudson and East river tunnels.  Did the engineer or firemen simply turn off generator or???

mikeg

The steam just went up and out at Newark Penn Station

IIRC the Employee Timetable Instructions listed the locations where the fireman had to shut down the boiler.

I wonder why the boilers weren't electrically heated?

I guess everyone pretty much answered the authors question , but I wanted to add that there exist many old films/video of GG1 entering stations throughout the north east sector. Some clearly show the GG1 as it enters the station entrance and that once underneath the stations roof, she does continue on.

Replicating this in scale is actually quite easily done, but requires patience and time as the lines that power the GG1 must be made to look as authentic as possible. I am sure there are many in here that have such skills as their pictures of their various layouts demonstrates.

Also, one can look at the European railroads to see this as well.

Pete