Show Us Your GG1 Engine

This is a Williams GG 1 I painted in the 50's LIRR paint sceme. Hopefully the picture is attached! This is my first attempt!

I have 5 scale Williams GG1's. This is my Robert Kennedy Funeral train headed by 2 PC GG1's.

 

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nice engines,
Boy Photo bucket must really not like you guys LOL

David

Some shots of my Williams unit.............. a little dusty but still running well!

Jim K

 Soon I'll be switching to a scale GG1 stable.

 

 

 

MTH Premier w. proto 2.0 auto pantographs & smoke!

Mine is a K-Line by Lionel Star Spangled GG1...

 

 

Lionel has made some G's over the years.  Here's a few.

 

Why would a GG1 smoke?  Steam heat for passengers?  -- Mike

Yes. The real GG-1s have a steam generator inside and MTH duplicates the "steam blow-down exhaust" out of the top of the carbody with a smoke unit.

Wow these are some great GG1s.  Many variations of paint out there too, not just the maroon and dark green I usually think of from Lionel. 

 

JohnGG1 has a great wall full to GG1s and I understand his handle now!

 

Thanks for all the great shots of GG1s and others get out the camera and post yours.

 

It is real easy and convenient with the new OGauge RR forum format with its own picture hosting feature.

 

Charlie

Here's my $99 GG1 K Line special, upgraded with a Digital Dynamics sound unit. Still conventional control, though. 

 

B&OBill

Here's an old one, I guess from "GG1 O-gauge history." Photo taken in March 1984. Unit was an early Williams Undecorated unit, which a friend painted and lettered for me. Came in kit form. Very, very heavy. Ran awful. Pilot trucks always derailed. Early can motors loud, slow. I ended up selling it on the Bay for a pittance. Now, you know, I wish I had it back!

 

B&OBill

Thanks to everyone for sharing some really "GREAT" looking photos of the GG1.

Only have three scale sized GG1’s.  But all are significant Motors in GG1 history.

 

4935 was next to last built but more significant it was resurrected to it’s original green with five-stripe look by the “Friends of the GG1” in 77 to run head end on some Amtrak trains.

 

4876 smashed into DC Union Station just days before Ike’s inauguration.  It was green with five-stripes when crashed.  It was resurrected red with five-stripes.

 

Then there is 4829 the most mysterious of all!

Great Pic, Nick.

Your Fastrack looks very nicely done, any chance of some more pics?

 

Video of the first scale GG1 issued by MTH

I always wonder how many of the GG1 owners out there have actually seen a real GG1 in action.  Since I grew up in Wissinoming, N/E Philadelphia, I was close to:

 

1. The Bachman factory, Erie Avenue (a block from the N/E corridor)

2. Brill Street, named for the factory where the Brill trolleys were made,

3. PRR/PC/Amtrak N/E corridor at Bridge St.

 

I spent the greater part of life from 1954-1983 watching and photographing GG1s as they passed through. 

 

My aunt lived on Worth street and her backyard was facing the tracks.  She was my favorite aunt.  Aunt May, can I go out in the yard?  It was behind her house that I saw the Robert Kennedy funeral train.

 

A grammar school friend Norman also lived in a house that backed up to the track.  Many teens would party on the track and end up a statistic.

 

My clearest memory is watching a black painted PC GG1 coming straight toward me at or above 65 mph.  The old wooden tie 'non-endless' rails made this huge hunk of iron pitch and yaw as it approached.  The ground shook and rumbled, the engine-man would honk that low pitched leslie horn, and she flashed by on the first track (there were four main lines there).  Whatta rush.

 

Anyway, I do have a modern era conventional Lionel 18303 or the W.C Fields model, and my son captured a decent Postwar 2332 with visable stripes and a working horn box.

 

The Acela is fast and quiet, but it can't erase the memory I have of the G's

Great looking G's guys. I have 4 WBB scale GG1's and 1 MTH scale in the Conrail Bicentennial scheme. I also lived in the Philly area all my life and the one thing I remembered is seeing the GG1's running along the mainline thru Philly and the suburbs. Saw the Bicentennial unit at 30th street station in 1976, yes it was gaudy but it was great.   Two are missing from the pics, the silver or congressional and a green solid stripe.

 

 

LionelBob wondered how many of us have seen real GG1's. I suspect many of us. I'll post one of my favorite photos here, and also note that there are a number of good GG1 websites. Here's a good one:http://www.spikesys.com/GG1/

 

Maybe this evening I'll put some more real ones over in "Real Trains forum."

 

B&OBill

Somehow missed this thread earlier. Great photos guys!

Here is our older Williams 'Black' G and also double headed with the Lionel JLC model. The Williams is non-powered.

Guys, thank you for some great pix. I grew up outside Philly in the 50's and watched and rode behind GG-1 locomotives many times. When school got out here in Boston I would go to live with my Aunt and Uncle in Pennsylvania for the summer. I loved taking the train and watching the engine swap in New Haven from Diesel to GG-1. I still remember the thrill when the G would take off from New Haven. Instant acceleration. Smooth and very fast.

The top two are the K-Line Club GG1s, and at the bottom is the Rail King GG1. By far, the K-line GG1s are the best looking semi-scale units, and they run great. The Rail King GG1 has PS 2.0, so it has superior operation.

It's S scale, (American Models) but here's mine...

 

 

...a little out of place by a coaling tower.

 

Rusty

I think it was around the early 80's when I was driving on I-95 through Wilmington, DE and I saw 13 GG1's traveling northbound towards Wilmington's Penn Station.  It was either a light engine move or a G funeral train.  I never did find out.

 

It was the most GG1's I had ever seen in one place.

 

Fred

I have.  Although I lived on the PRR main line, it was in south-central Pennsylvania, where (unfortunately) the electrification never reached.

 

But when I was a kid, my parents would occasionally travel to the Harrisburg area, where I was treated to the sight of overhead catenary and plenty of GG1s to run under it.  I particularly remember a small restaurant at which we stopped one day, and the tracks were just across the road.  We had a magnificent view of those massive GG1s cruising by at relatively low speeds, occasionally sounding their distinctive horns.  I wanted that meal to last forever!

 

And my aunt and uncle lived in Newark, DE, through which the Corridor electrification still runs, as as far as I know.  My cousin and I would occasionally go down to the tracks to watch the GG1s and their trains fly by.  In later years -- the late Seventies -- both of us nearly became smears on the Metroliner's windshield, but that's another story.

 

Although I've had a couple of HO GG1s over the years, it wasn't till just last month that I got my first Lionel semi-scale GG1, a twin-motored MPC 8150 (cab number 4935), new in box.  It's a great locomotive, and it's hauling a string of Lionel 027 PRR streamlined passenger cars around my layout even as I type.  Sorry, no photos yet (I've gotta get to work with that digital camera).

 

The prototype GG1 was an amazing machine.

How about a Baby G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maoXZe1rX74

 

Steve

^ Steve, that baby G is cool!

Some lovely recollections, I'd have loved to see them run. I have seen the one at Harrisburg station and those at the Strasburg Museum, which is better than nothing. I don't think looking at pictures can prepare you for seeing one in the flesh, an awesome loco. Lionel Bob, seeing the Robert Kennedy funeral train would really stay in your mind. I constantly look at pictures from that day, it has always had a very strong effect on me. Thanks again all, for the stories.

This one is an MTH DAP with PS2 bought from Chris here on the forum.

 

Hugh, your catenary system, whose is it? Looks great!

Thanks Cando. It was made from some Marx shell fronts leftover from another project. It has RMT Beep running gear under it now, runs slick.

 

Steve

Dave, Thanks for asking! I madeit myself.

Here are the details.

http://www.jcstudiosinc.com/BlogShowThread?id=808&categoryId=975

Enjoy

Mine now just a shelf queen due to the bubbling paintwork and the crackling sound.

James

 

 

This is a custom repaint by Elliott Welz to commerorate "Big Red".  Excuse the dust, Jeeves is off this week.