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hoppercar
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After building a few steam locomotives in 1 1/2 scale and numerous cars....I've been thinking for a while about a new project....if I ever strayed from the path of steam, ..everyone has there favorite diesel or electric locomotive....for me, that would be, without a doubt...the pennsy gg1. ...watched several videos at mill creek, showing someone's master craftsmanship of a gg1.....would like to reach out and ask around, if anyone knows the builder....is the body on this loco, sheet metal work?....I always thought about making a master fiberglass mold ???....thanks...
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The GG1 models that I have seen (one a regular at PLS) have all had fiberglass shells.

I cannot say if this loco made it to mill creek or not .have not seen the videos to which you alluded.

I have several rolls of film (slides actually) taken of the entire fleet of GG1s parked on a siding in edgemoor de as they were being hauled off to the scrap yard in the late 1970s or early 1980s (have to dig them out to check the dates).
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Hi Bill
I remember one of our Annual meets at Norfolk St in Holliston, Mass, someone brought up a GG-1 in either three quarter scale or one inch scale. George Dimond being George would not allow the person to run the locomotive on the Hi-line.
The person who built the locomotive did an excellent job, on the locomotive, which was battery powered.
There also was another person brought up a set of Pennsylvania DD-1's at the old track. The builder did such a beautiful job, on the locomotives George broke down an let him run. As for the person that had the GG-1, he also got his turn running at the old Waushakum track at Norfolk, st. Pat.
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Pron baby the same fellow.. sat on the loco. At PLS everything is ground line so it matters not.
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George lords One inch gg1 now lives in Eden NY this is the one that ran a PLS for years on the ground one inch track with George sitting on top of it runs once in a while on our high line,been repainted in Pennsylvania colors ,owner building a ground 1” multi gauge ground track to run it on
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Pat Fahey wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:22 am Hi Bill
I remember one of our Annual meets at Norfolk St in Holliston, Mass, someone brought up a GG-1 in either three quarter scale or one inch scale. George Dimond being George would not allow the person to run the locomotive on the Hi-line.
The person who built the locomotive did an excellent job, on the locomotive, which was battery powered.
There also was another person brought up a set of Pennsylvania DD-1's at the old track. The builder did such a beautiful job, on the locomotives George broke down an let him run. As for the person that had the GG-1, he also got his turn running at the old Waushakum track at Norfolk, st. Pat.
As I remember….the DD-1 was built by Ken Parkinson. I believe it was written up in Live Steam magazine back in the 1970’s.
It was a beautiful model.

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Benjamin Maggi
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You might want to check out this thread, which discusses various ideas: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=101535&hilit
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I believe the GG-1 that you saw in the videos is Dave Taylor's. It is made in sheet metal.
Dave owns a body shop here in Michigan.
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Hoppercar, I bought a 1" GG-1 project about 12 years ago that started at NJLS,went out to PA and came back to NJ; I worked on it for about 10 years and sold it to a fellow member at NJLS. The GG-1 body is a deceptively difficult shape to form correctly, and getting the wheels to look right will take a master pattern maker to make. The project I bought came with a rough fabricated steel chassis with12 motors a cast iron body, a fiberglass mold and casting pattern for the wheels. I didn't use the cast iron body or fiberglass mold, rather I used the cast iron body as a mold to hammer out a sheet steel body. Attached is a photo of the rough body before grinding and leading the body, there is also a photo of the cast iron body. I'm not trying to discourage you but everything about this engine, the body, wheels, doors, windows, louvers, pantographs, etc. are difficult to make correctly. I sold it because I couldn't make the finished details fine enough to look correct, the new owner is a 3D printer and should be able to bring the engine over the finish line.
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