Those Great Locomotives - GG1
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What some argue to be
What some argue to be the most successful electric locomotives of all time, the GG1s were the electric powerhouse the Pennsylvania Railroad needed to haul trains along what now is the Northeast Corridor, providing service under the PRR, Penn Central, Conrail, the New Jersey Transit Department and Amtrak. But how good can a locomotive, whose bodyshell was designed by the same man who designed the Coca Cola bottle really be?
SOURCES & CREDIT:
Picture of GG1 no 4935 – Derek Ramsey / Wikicommons CC BY-SA 4.0
Picture of Conrail GG1 – Roger Wollstadt / Wikicommons CC BY-SA 2.0
Picture of GG1 at the head of the ‘George Washington Express’ – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Picture of Amtrak GG1 no902 – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Picture of an unidentifiable heavily weathered GG1 – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Picture of GG1 no4835 – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Remaining images not mentioned or marked with distinction of ownership are in the Public Domain.
Website sources:
https://www.therailwayhub.co.uk/10595...
https://www.railsandtrails.com/
Literary sources:
'The Great Book Of Trains' by Brian Hollingsworth & Arthur Cook, published by Salamander Books Ltd
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
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#GG1 #PennsylvaniaRailroad #PennCentral #Amtrak
SOURCES & CREDIT:
Picture of GG1 no 4935 – Derek Ramsey / Wikicommons CC BY-SA 4.0
Picture of Conrail GG1 – Roger Wollstadt / Wikicommons CC BY-SA 2.0
Picture of GG1 at the head of the ‘George Washington Express’ – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Picture of Amtrak GG1 no902 – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Picture of an unidentifiable heavily weathered GG1 – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Picture of GG1 no4835 – scan from 'The Great Book Of Trains'
Remaining images not mentioned or marked with distinction of ownership are in the Public Domain.
Website sources:
https://www.therailwayhub.co.uk/10595...
https://www.railsandtrails.com/
Literary sources:
'The Great Book Of Trains' by Brian Hollingsworth & Arthur Cook, published by Salamander Books Ltd
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
LINKS
Discord server - Discord: discord
Twitter - Twitter: TeaWithCaramel1
Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty
(Fiddles McGinty by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/ )
Channel icon by - Twitter: ShirahoshiD
2D avatars by:
- Twitter: InkSilvery (Green coat Caramel)
- Twitter: star_blood827 (Witch Caramel)
#GG1 #PennsylvaniaRailroad #PennCentral #Amtrak
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