GGI along NE Corridor

I remember the GG-1 shutdown of '58.  it was an extramly fine frozen snow.  Like snow dust.  It even came under the door sills. 

The GG-1 intake filters were clogging and no replacement filter material was found in stock anywhere.  The Philadelphia Bulletin later printed a story that it was later determined that a worker was hoarding the filter material so when the engines came in for service he was guaranteed to have enough material for the job.  Forget what happened to him. tt

Question, the Williams by Bachman green GG-1.  It looks like a very wrong light green in the photo.  Commemnts??

This is a great thread. I have enjoyed reading it. Thanks.

Tom

I have the Large Herald version . While the green is not as black as say the MTH and Lionel 5 stripers, looking at it on the layout, it seems dark enough. I had it in the kitchen under a recessed ceiling light and you could see the difference in the green. The WBB engine also has a bit more of a sheen so that emphasizes the color. I am happy with mine.

I had grandparents in NJ (I live in Baltimore), so when I was little there were occasions when we took the train. We took the train out of Penn Station- I remember those were green GG-1s with multi stripe (early 60s).

Later a British steamer came to town (the Flying Scotsman), I believe, and a Tuscan Red loco was paired with it.

Later when I got my license, I would often drive over to the NE Corridor. While most of the GG-1s I saw were PC black, there were a fair number of green-single stripe GiGis. How the ground would shake when these ran past!

My parents took me and my siblings down to the tracks (not the NE Corridor) to see Robert Kennedy's Funeral Train pass through Baltimore.

So I saw a lot of GiGis. And the NE Corridor is not the same with the Amtrak Toasters and Acelas.

I just ordered the 4-car set last night, will post pictures of the GG1 and the 4 car set when I receive them. ordered them from trainworld too.

well, trainworld was out of stock for the PRR 72' scale streamliner 4 car set. so I ordered the PRR 72' scale streamliner 2 car set today, they said they had 1 set in stock.

these cars will match the silver GG1 I ordered from trainworld.