The GG-1

I’m back in California, folks, and glad to be home…and by the way, happy Easter Sunday to everyone.  

School starts on Tuesday at Cal Poly, so today I’m busy finalizing the courses I’m teaching this quarter.  

I don’t know what directed my thinking in this direction, but for whatever reason the Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 locomotive popped into my mind last night.  I dug around on the Internet just a bit and there was actually quite a bit of information out there about these magnificent old beasts.   Take a look at this YouTube video put together from a railroad piece back in the 1950s…

I was a railroad fan when I was a kid, I had a Lionel train set, and we lived just a half mile from the Pennsylvania Railroad mainline in New Jersey.  I remember going through the woods to watch these old trains smoke on by.   The old GG-1 locomotives were awesome.  They were a deep burgundy with five gold stripes running down their entire length.   Very classy.  I always wanted the Lionel version, but I never got one.   I found out that there were less then 200 of the real ones, and they last rolled down the tracks in the 1980s.  They first started running in the 1930s.  Cool stuff.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve been on my Scooter, and I’m going to go for a ride later this morning. I’ll try to remember to grab a photo or two for the blog when I do.

Ride safe, my friends…