Those were the days! Great shot.
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The "G" furthest to the right looks like "Old Rivets" herself .... 4800.
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The GG-1's could do it all! The Pennsy sure built a winner.
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I ran these machines as a fireman/engineer back in the 70's.They had real solid ride on all those wheels.22 notch controller,24 air brake.They were either geared for 90mph or 100mph.Just try and start a heavy freight drag with these,I learned a whole new vocabulary of profanity.You froze your butt off in the winter,and melted in the summer.Old heads would not run anything else,would refuse an E-44 if they could.
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I ran these machines as a fireman/engineer back in the 70's.They had real solid ride on all those wheels.22 notch controller,24 air brake.They were either geared for 90mph or 100mph.Just try and start a heavy freight drag with these,I learned a whole new vocabulary of profanity.You froze your butt off in the winter,and melted in the summer.Old heads would not run anything else,would refuse an E-44 if they could.
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Superb. Good things always come in threes!
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Ahhh, a Penn Central GG-1. I've mentioned it before but...I remember the movie "The last detail" as a PC GG-1 pulled into Washington D.C.'s train station behind Jack Nicholson (in character as a sailor named "Badusky") and another actor, as U.S. Navy sailors transporting a prisoner from Norfolk up the east coast to the old Portsmouth Naval Prison (a.k.a. "The Alcatraz of the east") in New Hampshire. Nicholson's swaggering along on the station platform, then the GG-1 engineer pulling in slowly behind him honks his horn to say "don't get too close to the edge", whereupon old Jack just turns around slowly like "What the...you talking to ME?" Great scene for a railroad buff.
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