Great video. I really like the GG1 but sold my MTH model when I sold off all my PRR trains.
@frankmarkovcijr5459
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And third rail territory Electric locomotive like ep 5 woodrun pantographs down when in third rail territory you don't have to have the Pantagraph reaching up to empty air looks much better that way
@scpvrr
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Fair enough. Until relatively recently I was unaware of 3rd rail pickup in prototypes. Even so, I purposefully build all bridges/tunnels/crossings to allow electrics to run with pantographs up.
@frankmarkovcijr5459
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In fact because of the existence of 0 Gauge Railroad with outside third rail you would not have to convert your Rolling Stock over. There were also many trolley modelers who would have overhead catenary and so all Gigi ones were wired so they could run off of catenary onto rail track as well as three rail track. Mike's train house used to make catenary poles that would connect to the real track but since the real tracks already had a third rail there was no point to it and they were kind of expensive. Frankly I was surprised that with it being a collectible set that they even bother to put a motor at all in the locomotive and not use just a dummy. The underside gg1 pretty much resembles the last order of the streamlined p5a Electric that the Pennsylvania Railroad had. They moved to a centrecab design for engine crew safety in case of Grey Crossing accidents. They were not very high horsepower so two of them would be prototypical with a normal train. Lionel really miss the boat with not coming out with a scale size diecast GT1 having twin Paul Moore Motors and magnatraction it would require 042 track but then lineout could have sold people the larger track so they could run the big engine on their layout.
@frankmarkovcijr5459
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I really wish Williams had not copied Lionel so completely. One thing I like about the Kaline GT1 is that the ladders go all the way up to the doors. Oh my God 1979 I was still in high school
@scpvrr
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LOL!!! I also was in high school in '79. Frankly, this GG1 is really not a great GG1. The motor is under powered, and it is a terrible puller - even for the cars that came with it.
@frankmarkovcijr5459
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I don't see why they only put one motor in there. L i o n n e l what's the cheap bastard which is why he only put one motor and the original GT1 but it couldn't pull anything so he had to put two Motors in it. The collectors look for the one with the single motor because there were few of those made before it was discovered it could not pull anything. I wish all of the collectors with more money than sense would take a long walk off a short pier
@scpvrr
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There were 2 upgrades available: first was a mechanical e-unit; second was a second motor. It appeared to me that Williams made the cheapest set possible for TCA. It doesn’t even have enough guts to pull the cars that came with it - much the same as some Lionel starter sets of the same era.
@frankmarkovcijr5459
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@@scpvrr frankly I am surprised that for these collector train sets they don't just use a dummy locomotive.
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