Another GG1

[wm3798]

Con Cor is going to make one too, and it will be available in Santa Fe, Milwaukee Road, and Southern Railway!

[bbussey]

I'm patiently waiting for the Bachmann parts to become available,, which is supposed to happen this year.  Then I can buy a bunch of their sprung equalized pans.

[peteski]

I'm patiently waiting for the Bachmann parts to become available,, which is supposed to happen this year.  Then I can buy a bunch of their sprung equalized pans.

That is one good thing about Bachmann GG1. 

[nkalanaga]

The FF2 would also work for GN modelers, so would have a wider variety of paint schemes. 

For whoever mentioned the Little Joe, I'd rather have a MILW Boxcab.  It would also be simpler to build...

[Philip H]

 

isn't this just a variety of the discussion we keep having about SD40-2s?  Of fthe top of my head I count ConCor, early Bachmann, early Kato, recent Kato, and IM, all with their own flaws and some with their better points.  And yes, there were many more SD40-2s the GG-1s, but each is an iconic American locomotive.  Frankly if this move by BLI pushes some of the Katos and Bachmanns onto the secondary market at enough of a discount i may well buy one just to have.

 

[cjm413]

GG1's everywhere and not a Little Joe in sight... 

Lets me save my money at least 

Little Goe

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Con Cor is going to make one too, and it will be available in Santa Fe, Milwaukee Road, and Southern Railway!

And "Freedom"...

[MichaelWinicki]

As a business guy I'm often puzzled by the choices manufactures make when it comes to "what to build"– Sometimes it appears to be nothing more than a list of locomotive models on a dart board and the lucky winner is... !

[C855B]

Ya' kno'... my mind keeps wandering to the totally unsubstantiated notion that there is a new person or persons who bankrolled BLI's resurgence, with a big influx of funds allowing them to finish the otherwise floundering M1a. The baggage this generosity carries is "pet projects" which seem to be recapturing a lost childhood with a Lionel loop under the Christmas tree, or other I-wanna-haves that make no sense in the bigger market. How else can you explain things like stock cars and water towers "With sound!", the thunder & lightning toy, and - don't forget - those train-sound sneakers?

Lionel made limited numbers of a "GG-1" which is a high-demand collectible, so if my deductions are any indication, it follows that "I must have one!" in N. That the one-off Pennsy S-2 is in the recent "hybrid brass" HO line slightly reinforces this notion, as Lionel's version of the S-2 was and is a very popular low-maintenance steamer for the tinplate crowd.

Just thinkin' out loud, and FWIW.

[eric220]

I talked to the BLI rep in Sacramento a couple of years ago about what their next products would be. His comment to me was that it's not a coincidence that the company's name is what it is. The owner is apparently an SPF. I think they're just doing locomotives that they see having mass appeal (T1, GG1) and darn the torpedoes. Good news for me!

[Dave V]

I talked to the BLI rep in Sacramento a couple of years ago about what their next products would be. His comment to me was that it's not a coincidence that the company's name is what it is. The owner is apparently an SPF. I think they're just doing locomotives that they see having mass appeal (T1, GG1) and darn the torpedoes. Good news for me!

HO seems to support many manufacturers of GG1s...  Guessing that's part of the logic too?  I remain skeptical that that will "scale" to N scale (no pun intended).  I can almost guarantee that if BLI can finally get their N scale momentum up that they'll be offering a K4, and likely in at least two of the same road numbers as the Bachmann ones (1361 and 3750).

[C855B]

Well, I hope that's the case for you SPFs. Carry on. I really can't squawk too much, they've done an OK job on the handful of passenger diesels I have from them, especially the road-specific detailing.

However, there needs to be a corresponding manufacturer for us SUPFs. Kato has some of the iconic UP stuff, but they're so conservative they won't dare do things like DDs, turbines, or any of the historic signature diesel power. That they're considering (via their poll) dabbling in Big Boys and Challengers was/is a surprise, even though they'd be slam-dunks.

Any UP fan out there with an idle bankroll who wants to underwrite N models? Anybody? Bueller? 

[learmoia]

I talked to the BLI rep in Sacramento a couple of years ago about what their next products would be. His comment to me was that it's not a coincidence that the company's name is what it is. The owner is apparently an SPF. I think they're just doing locomotives that they see having mass appeal (T1, GG1) and darn the torpedoes. Good news for me!

I just had a really fun idea... take a few Kato GG1s and place them on the BLI booth at the NMRA convention with the other N models..

 

[chicken45]

Don't forge the Del Prado!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Del-Prado-Pennsylvania-Railroad-GG1-USA-1-160-N-LOC049-/282280920482?hash=item41b94105a2:g:7HMAAOSwcUBYRaSz



LOL

[peteski]

I have no problem with BLI favoring Pennsy models, but why another GG1? Pennsy had oodles and oodles of iconic and unique motive power (models of which I'm sure would sell very well to SPFs and to casual collectors).