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kelticsylk

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Sacrilege!!!
« on: November 24, 2013, 07:51:03 PM »
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Please say it isn't so...
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2013, 08:05:29 PM »
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What the...  :?


Hmm... that's Amtrak
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2013, 08:07:29 PM »
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Frank,

Yeah, that unit has been discussed here before.  I've seen references to it called a GG1/2, but something like a G1 or G-something seems more apropos.  I believe it was used for snowblowing around the shops in Wilmington, Delaware.  That's a great pic you posted, which I have never seen before and really shows off the modified end.

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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2013, 08:16:53 PM »
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Standard Railroad of the World!


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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2013, 08:18:39 PM »
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Looks like a track cleaner which according to DFF, it is in a sense.
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2013, 08:57:26 PM »
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Real Sacrilege:

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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2013, 10:50:52 PM »
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Quote from: pjm20 on November 24, 2013, 08:57:26 PM
Real Sacrilege:



Reminds me of "Hank", the K4 on Thomas the Tank Engine...




Doesn't anyone respect anything anymore  :)
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2013, 12:32:30 AM »
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That GG1/2 was in the magazines at the time it was rebuilt, and the reaction was much the same as here.  A very strange looking rebuild, and if anyone ever said WHY they did it I don't remember the answer.  What did they do with the other half?  Or was only half of it salvageable?
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2013, 07:41:54 AM »
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If memory serves, the other part was damaged. They actually salvaged more like 3/5 of the loco to use as the GG 1/2 snowblower/ice melter at the Wilmington shops.

More photos: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=140192
« Last Edit: November 25, 2013, 09:17:26 AM by eric220 »
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2013, 11:05:21 AM »
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Impressed on 2 fronts:
1. I learned of the GG.5 from the Kato box blurb. Never saw a picture until today. Thanks, Frank!
2. I had NOOOOO idea that TtTE had a K4 named Hank!! The last "new" engine I knew was Diesel, or the Scottish Twins. I stopped following TtTE after Carlin left Shining Time Station.
Now that I'm, you know, thirty, I am stunned that that show had both Ringo and Carlin in it.


3. If there's a K4 in TtTE, why can't we have an RTR version in N?
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2013, 11:30:07 AM »
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GG Wha?
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2013, 05:38:06 PM »
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I believe it was the Wilmington Shop Switcher....

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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2013, 05:46:06 PM »
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There's gotta be an N scale version, there just has to be.
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2013, 06:20:06 PM »
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Quote from: Leggy on November 25, 2013, 05:46:06 PM
There's gotta be an N scale version, there just has to be.

Kato and a hacksaw?
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Re: Sacrilege!!!
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2013, 01:35:44 AM »
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It would be a tough build in N scale, as the motor is in the middle, and half an electric motor doesn't run very well.  If all you want is scenery that would be easy, and you could save all of the working parts as spares for other units.

Just out of curiosity, what was the highest numbered G class on the Pennsy?  As Dave Foxx said, if this had been a PRR product, it would be a G-something. 
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