Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!chaltas From: chaltas@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.railroad Subject: Re: American Coal Enterprises Message-ID: <11100028@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 09:56:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.11100028 Posted: Sun Oct 14 09:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:55:43 EDT References: <5450329@acf4.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:acf4:-545032904:uiucdcsb:11100028:000:817 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!chaltas Oct 14 08:56:00 1984 > Also, any GG1 fanatics out there? Pant - pant (ograph) -- You bet. They have always been rather scarce in the boondocks of Illinois though. I finally aquired an N scale model of one of these giants last summer -- even though I model neither Pennsy, nor Conrail, nor NJ transit, nor (ugh) Penn Central, nor Amtrak (northeast corridor). In fact, I haven't the faintest idea how to justify running a GG1 on a railroad set in the White Mountains, and I don't care. I remember seeing them in New Haven as a teenager (me, not the GG1's) and being thrilled. I was amazed that something so huge and powerful could be all but silent. I still am. (I know that they aren't really silent, but to someone who grew up with B&M geeps they sure seemed that way). Anyway, I'll miss them. George Chaltas chaltas!uiucdcs