GG1s Under the Heat DVD Sunday River Productions
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- MORE: www.sundayriver... PRR GG1s, Pennsylvania Railroad’s electric locomotives, in service in the 1960s. These marvels gained their futuristic appearance initially from industrial designer, Donald Roscoe Dohner, and enhanced by the famed Raymond Loewy.
I miss her so much, she took me anywhere I needed to go❤
Favorite locomotive since I got into trains in 1969. Saw them in service... wish I had a good camera then but I was a kid.
Most awesome engine I ever saw! Sad to see them go.
Fun fact: GG-1 4801, shown at 1:04 would go on to be the only GG-1 to enter Penn Central with the Brunswick Green five stripe design.
I was lucky enough as a kid to ride trains pulled by these between Washington and NYC multiple times as well as between DC and Baltimore a couple of times. They were such a common sight when I was a kid I never really appreciated them until they (and the PRR itself) were gone. My parents would always talk about the one that ended up inside Union Station whenever we went there.
Love seeing the GG1 pulling coal at 1:07!!
Beautiful locomotive ❤️❤️
I'm surprised how quiet they are/ were....Especially for the time period. A gorgeous engine
I grew up with the GG-1, from the PRR/PC/Amtrak/NJ Transit to one evening in October, when the last one in revenue service pulled out of Penn Station NY. Except for the restored PRR business car coupled behind the locomotive and a cab full of visitors, it was business as usual. Which in some ways maybe was the best tribute to pay. I was the only person on the platform. When the signal turned green, the bell started ringing and it rolled off into the night. As had happened thousands of times over the years. It was a machine that worked.
You mention being surprised at how quiet they were. Over the years I was lucky enough to have a few cab rides, including one where we were rolling along at 100mph. It was just sort of loping along, seemingly without effort. And it rode more smoothly than the cars it was pulling. You could have balanced a cup of coffee on your palm and not spilled it. They were extraordinary machines, in so many ways.
So beautiful
Imagine Amtrak’s popularity if they had a few of these in service, combined with a few “fixed” SDP40-2s, FP45s, P30CH locos, etc. back before Anderson screwed up Amtrak and the accidents started
SDP40-2?????
you mean SDP40F?
America's finest Electrics!
1:36 4877 herself! Big Red!
the GG1 is basically Pennsy's version of the 4-6-6-4 challenger. I bet if the Milwaukee Road had their own GG1s built, they would classify them as EC-1s; EC of course meaning Electric Challenger.
My favorite engine! Sleek and beautiful.
In the mid -1980s I saw a whole string of them lined up on a siding in New York... They were evidently abandoned and I guess awaiting scrap based on the closing note in this film...
They were very much retired by that time, so yes.
Accentuated by the lowering pantograph at the very end.
1:29 MP54