Pennsylvania Railroad High Speed Train....!! What may have been!

Alan, very cool.  That would have been the PRR version of an Acela type train.  I would love to have one of those.

Very cool

Ken M

Those titans of their day were something. I could only imagine what if C. Vanderbilt, or T. Scott, etc., were alive today. I imagine they strived to have the very best equipment available on their RR's in their time. So what would they have running today? Sure that Acela type would be there!

Maybe W. Buffet just lets the RR management do their thing. I can't help but to think that he's the modern equivalent. What do I know??? Hey, we're just playing with toys and pretending anyways.

So Alan, go for it!

It's amazing how the classic paint scheme of the PRR looks great on anything!! And really cool on modern passenger trains!!!

Very nice. I wonder if the double decker tgv would have looked like the "supertrain" model found at the altoona railroaders memorial Museum.

Alan, looks like a video game capture. Awesome looking train though.

It's hard to beat the actual French TGV colors.

Really cool train.  Thanks for posting Alan. If offered in 3-rail O Gauge, I would buy it. /then again, I buy almost anything Pennsy. 

He's alive . . .  ALIVE !!

Nice to see you back here, Alan. 

Pete

Yeah Pete... the bullet proof vest made from the metal boiler jacket of a steam locomotive has come in pretty handy!...

Alan

A TGV in O would be cool......I have the Lego version that will do for now.

Can we have a tinplate version for O27 ?   

very nice looking train

Bob C.

  The one with the black background on the nose would a real head turner, and once faced, would have great impact with the size of it.  Its great color stacking.

As far as body style goes I like the TVG shape much better than Acela's which to me looks like an aquarium, in much the same way an AMC Pacer looks like a fishbowl. ("Acela?; Ok, maybe some "toaster" accenting too") 

   A big fan of any logo art, I always thought a really huge nose keystone, was a cool idea that got overlooked in favor of being subtle. I think the GG-1 had the biggest one for PRR as side art.  ???

I love the bigger Norfolk Pony logos. Never a big Norfolk fan outside of the J's, I'd be very tempted to buy a modern era diesel with it

I like it.

That is one cool looking train. If someone built that I would be very tempted to buy one. But, I don't need all the added nonsense, Just a nice running train with a ton of detail and no opening doors , tilting, or people walking down the isles.

To help some, when I was younger and sometime even today, but not as much, the photos are from a game. The game is Trainz. Looks to be the older version like the one I still have. It's a repainted TGV. How I knew it was Trainz is by the track. Here's the game info by google images   https://www.google.com/search?...ch&q=trainz+game

Thanks for posting Alan!  What an awesome trains.  Only if the Pennsy had survived .... what would/could have been possible?!

Adriatic posted:

  The one with the black background on the nose would a real head turner, and once faced, would have great impact with the size of it.  Its great color stacking.

As far as body style goes I like the TVG shape much better than Acela's which to me looks like an aquarium, in much the same way an AMC Pacer looks like a fishbowl. ("Acela?; Ok, maybe some "toaster" accenting too") 

   A big fan of any logo art, I always thought a really huge nose keystone, was a cool idea that got overlooked in favor of being subtle. I think the GG-1 had the biggest one for PRR as side art.  ???

I love the bigger Norfolk Pony logos. Never a big Norfolk fan outside of the J's, I'd be very tempted to buy a modern era diesel with it

TGV has got a better name too. In the words of David Gunn, "To me Acela is something under my house."

Ace posted:

It's hard to beat the actual French TGV colors.

That would look really cool in the Warbonnet paint scheme, altho this version kind of remind me of the Milwaukee Road.

Jerry

The original 1969 TGV-001 demonstrator had gas turbine power, but the design development shifted to electric propulsion because of escalating oil prices. The turbine power version would be a good candidate for operating models because it wouldn't need overhead wires to "look right".

TGV-001 established a still-standing rail speed record for gas-turbine power: 198mph.

The original TGV design ranks as one of the all-time great accomplishments for train aesthetics IMO.

One of the goals with the TGV development was to have a train that could use existing tracks into city terminals to avoid costly new construction, and use dedicated new high-speed alignments in open country. In some cases the TGV trains ran through to other destinations on existing tracks which had not yet been upgraded for very high speeds. For modelling purposes you have a prototypical reason for running it on existing trackage.

Thanks guys for the extra info on the TGV.  I saw the picture of it painted in the Pennsy paint scheme and thought how nice it looked.  It just seems that for some reason that color combination looks pretty good on most body styles!

Alan