And I think some of that, at least, is about electric locomotion rather than scummy old diesel-electric, even though I do like this Pennsy Rail livery:
But when I look at images of the glorious PRR GG-1 loco, it gives me shivers.
I am by no means an expert on GG-1s (as you may have gathered), but, appearances notwithstanding, I think the following image is not, in fact, a GG-1.
I think it is, in fact, a P5a, an earlier type of locomotive altogether which was designed as a box-cab. It was in a crash, and when it was rebuilt it acquired the glorious streamlined body you see today -- it was a prototype for the GG-1. But you see all those rivet heads? The great industrial designer Raymond Loewy was called in by PRR to advise on how to improve its appearance for the production engines, and he immediately got rid of the rivets. The smooth sides of the GG-1, which forms such a great base for the livery, is due to him.
As was the pinstripe livery.
The GG-1 wasn't always so lucky in the liveries it wore:
But even in those it looked like nothing else.
When it was in Loewy's design, though...
It looked a million dollars.
They were withdrawn in the 1980s.
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Hello LeDuc - the previous post is a link to some pictures on a photo sharing site - the page is dedicated to streamline designs and includes some trains as well as some interior shots of trains all looking like the Lowey era -
seems to me when I was a kid the fella up the street had a lionel model of this engine and it was stunning on his layout -
Hello........this is a pix of the train my father worked on in the 40's and 50's...it is still in operation witht he same name but now is an Amtrak train. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad was basically a southern railroad it owned no tracks north of Richamond, Virginia.
Fred
http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/SAL/sal3002.jpg
Thanks, guys, for sharing -- both excellent resources! I have a particular soft spot for the streamlined GWR railcars, and it's nice to see them in multiple.
Hello.....found this pix I thought you would enjoy........from the Maryland and Pennsylvania RR...link
http://www.mdrails.com/images/mpadeltaturn.jpg
Fred
I think it's been a great mistake to divorce Steeplecab Heaven from Normal for Norfolk.
The mix was always stunning.
I think it's been a great mistake for you to assume the person writing the blog cares what you think.
Now if you were a paying customer, of course...
http://www.heartlandrails.com/photos/pv.asp?pid=2298
Found a new Steeplecab pix...also a good site for train pix..........
Fred
The locomotive which you think isn't a GG1 is a GG1. Look carefully at the number of wheels on the rail. GG1 was 2-C+C-2. P5a 2-C-2.
The photo is the very first GG1, built before Loewy was consulted. You're correct. though, that a number of P5 boxcabs were rebuilt to a pattern very similar to that in the photo.
Thanks for the correction.
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