Just To Mess With people !

@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:

So these are all delightfully silly. But serious question... What's with the GG1 love in general? Do people like it because "it's so ugly it's cute" kind of thing? Like Pugs? Or Amy Schumer?

Seriously, the thing is hideous. It looks like a confused hair dryer with an inferiority complex and a pantograph.

I think you need a blue and yellow warbonnet.

Mine has history, kinda like that old bike, like, who"s your best friend, spouse or dog? "Lock them both in the trunk for an hour and see which one is happy to see you when you open the trunk".

She's a beauty, speaks to me, heavy as **** and "No Honey, That dress does NOT make you look FAT, and those Pantographs, yea, sweet." imho

@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:

What's with the GG1 love in general? Do people like it because "it's so ugly it's cute" kind of thing?

Seriously, the thing is hideous.

Jerry

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Could you imagine a GG1 in one of the following?

Bryce

In a word…

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Could you imagine a GG1 in one of the following?

- Airforce One (Bush #4141)

That would be a cool color scheme....

Might be better suited to a PA unit tho.

Jerry

@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:

So the7se are all delightfully silly. But serious question... What's with the GG1 love in general? Do people like it because "it's so ugly it's cute" kind of thing? Like Pugs? Or Amy Schumer?

Seriously, the thing is hideous. It looks like a confused hair dryer with an inferiority complex and a pantograph.

I think you need a blue and yellow warbonnet.

Jeff... Jeff... Jeff... a BL2 is “so ugly it’s cute”, an Amtrak toasters is “so ugly it’s cute”. GG-1’s are stylish, sleek, streamlined engines which look fast while standing still. They are iconic representations of their era. Now the plain black PC version was kinda ugly... and that Bicentennial version was DEFINITELY ugly. The various versions shown in this thread (or suggested) are desecration, pure and simple

@Allegheny posted:

This would be a sharp looking model - especially if done by 3rd Rail/Sunset with fixed pilots.

PRRMP54 Dave replied:  The real GG1s had swinging pilots.

I stand corrected wrt to the pilots, but I still believe 3rd Rail would do a super job on a model like this.

Since we are talking about fantasy schemes, what if one were done in Maze and Blue for Univ. of Michigan.

It would have a similar look to what the early B&O striped diesels.

But the B&O Logo would be replaced with a block M! 

@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:

So these are all delightfully silly. But serious question... What's with the GG1 love in general? Do people like it because "it's so ugly it's cute" kind of thing? Like Pugs? Or Amy Schumer?

Seriously, the thing is hideous. It looks like a confused hair dryer with an inferiority complex and a pantograph.

I think you need a blue and yellow warbonnet.

We Pennsy fans have a special fondness for it, and being an ex-New Yorker can add that we have ridden behind one many times. Add to that it's a Lionel icon and one of the smoothest runners they ever made, and you have a better idea of the love. I have a carefully restored 5 striper and it looks great pulling the postwar aluminum passenger cars- the sizes are right- a little compression all around. Of course the Pennsy never ran vistadomes, but hey, they are toys!!

@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:

So these are all delightfully silly. But serious question... What's with the GG1 love in general? Do people like it because "it's so ugly it's cute" kind of thing? Like Pugs? Or Amy Schumer?

Seriously, the thing is hideous. It looks like a confused hair dryer with an inferiority complex and a pantograph.

I think you need a blue and yellow warbonnet.

@Jeff_the_Coaster_Guy posted:

I think you need a blue and yellow warbonnet.

Jerry

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Jerry

I am seriously loving ll of these.     I wouldn't mind having a fleet of GG1 in Santa Fe traditional Red War Bonnet, Black Bonnet, Yellow Bonnet, and Blue Bonnet,

Since there's so much hate regarding these, how about a Batman version?

The first looks best to me

My thoughts are a silver G with a purple stripe similar to the ones painted for the Congressional/Tuscan stripe. After all the Gs did haul the Champion from NYC to DC.

Maybe someone can do a day-glo yellow one; for you know... the GG1 work train.

Apples55:

The Williams is a scale GG-1 that rides on 042 curves.

@baltimoretrainworks I just had a great idea!

A GG1 in the black and yellow scheme of "The 48 Club." You already have stylish passenger cars, now you need an engine to pull them. I would think that this version needs to be a semi-scale engine.

As an aside, are you still accepting members into  the Brotherhood Of The Crappy Basement Layout? I have exposed pipes, exposed wires, unfinished walls and a concrete slab for a floor.

Bryce

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Jerry

That's the ticket!!!!  Looks like two Big Birds playing tug-of-war with an old bath towel.  Superb.

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

A GG1 in the black and yellow scheme of "The 48 Club." You already have stylish passenger cars, now you need an engine to pull them. I would think that this version needs to be a semi-scale engine.

As an aside, are you still accepting members into  the Brotherhood Of The Crappy Basement Layout? I have exposed pipes, exposed wires, unfinished walls and a concrete slab for a floor.

Bryce

A GG1 in the black and yellow scheme of "The 48 Club."

  Even tho I think the proper locomotive to pull that set of passenger cars is the iconic NYC Dreyfuss Hudson...

As to the CBL it's an open membership to anyone who has a layout in an unfinished part of the house be it garage, basement or attic or an unfinished out building like a shed or barn, in fact if it meets those criteria you're already a member! The 48 Club is more that we are aware of the limitations of that size and choose to model in it despite them.

Jerry

@ChooChoo1972 posted:

Maybe someone can do a day-glo yellow one; for you know... the GG1 work train.

"JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO PLAY WITH YOUR TRAINS !!!!!  

Even I think this one is ugly!

Jerry

@Mallard4468 posted:

Since there's so much hate regarding these, how about a Batman version?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Arkham Knight...

I swear to God if any of these show up on the market down the road I will loose it.

I know I need to do a Superman one now and a Hulk and a Green Lantern and a and a and a...

Jerry

My cat also says NO, and at 13 1/2 years old, he has seen it all!

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Arkham Knight...

I swear to God if any of these show up on the market down the road I will loose it.

I know I need to do a Superman one now and a Hulk and a Green Lantern and a and a and a...

Jerry

One of the shortcomings of this forum is that I can only click "like" once.

Thank goodness all my viewings of the one and only PENNSY GG1's in the Sunnyside Yard in Queens are firmly etched in my memory! There is, and always will be, the CLASSIC PRR GG1's! Anything else is HERESY! (Cue cat hiss) LOL!

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Arkham Knight...

Jerry

I am morbidly curious to see what Joker or Penguin GG1 would look like....

@Tinplate Art posted:

Thank goodness all my viewings of the one and only PENNSY GG1's in the Sunnyside Yard in Queens are firmly etched in my memory! There is, and always will be, the CLASSIC PRR GG1's! Anything else is HERESY! (Cue cat hiss) LOL!

To paraphrase what Art said...

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

I am morbidly curious to see what Joker or Penguin GG1 would look like....

PLEASE... Don’t encourage him

@Tinplate Art posted:

Thank goodness all my viewings of the one and only PENNSY GG1's in the Sunnyside Yard in Queens are firmly etched in my memory! There is, and always will be, the CLASSIC PRR GG1's! Anything else is HERESY! (Cue cat hiss) LOL!

Most of my viewings of the GG1s in person were in the small engine yard just north of South Amboy.  In my childhood they came in four flavors. 

• Tuscan Red 5 Stripe 4877
• All black with PC era numbers and a nearly microscopic NJDOT stencil on one end.
• DGLE with the single yellow stripe with no herald and NJDTO stenciled under one of the numbers.
• Finally as E60CHs (posers!)

I am old enough to have also witnessed a full PC GG1 at Newark Penn and one in black stenciled for Amtrak after official retirement at 30th St, Philadelphia in the yard.

I can still have fun with my favorite locomotive though!  T

I also have ridden behind these very smooth locos on a number of occasions out of the original Penn Station and on the Pennsylvania Railroad! Nothing else like it! (Cue Gus Kahn song, "Memories"!)

SORRY, but the black PC is disappointing, and the Amtrak is not much better. :-(

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Jerry

All I can see here is the big yellow noses of two cartoon characters starting at each, with the windows in the doors being their eyes.  I can't unsee it - and now neither can you!

@Apples55 posted:

PLEASE... Don’t encourage him

Exactly.  If Batman is the PRR, those characters belong on NYC locomotives!

This thread still here?

@baltimoretrainworks posted:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Arkham Knight...

I swear to God if any of these show up on the market down the road I will loose it.

I know I need to do a Superman one now and a Hulk and a Green Lantern and a and a and a...

Jerry

Lionel does have the sound and control system to put in a GG1 for this, if they were so inclined. I remember this train

from the Legacystation youtube channel. Just paint it black, put the Batman wings decal on either side of the Pennsy keystone

and it's good to go!

May I proudly present the GG1 in New Haven's Yellow McGinnis

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

May I proudly present the GG1 in New Haven's Yellow McGinnis

That sure is a visible paint scheme.

Actually reminds me a little of WW1 Dazzle camouflage schemes.

how about a PRR both Red and Green?  Or a SF Red and Sliver at one end and a BNSF Orange at the other?

@GG1 4877 posted:

Exactly.  If Batman is the PRR, those characters belong on NYC locomotives!

The date Batman first appeared was 1939 (the locomotives number) which fits in nicely with the GG1s build dates of 1934 – 1943. I have a number of Williams GG1s and a couple blank shells I found on Ebay a few years ago, might try making the Arkham Knight and one of the Santa Fe designs.

Jerry

@Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

I am morbidly curious to see what Joker or Penguin GG1 would look like....

Would the Penguin GG1 have umbrella-shaped pantographs?

@Mallard4468 posted:

Would the Penguin GG1 have umbrella-shaped pantographs?

and AND, Quack like Burgess Meredith as Penguin...( Wait, kinda what the Squack of the 47 GG1 horn now that i think of it.)