She’s a beaut!

I could be happy hanging out on that platform watching trains especially at night.Good video.

The video turns 30 today!

Looks like it would be fun to ride just for the views.

TM Books and Video did a really great job on making "The Great Train Story" video when they came to the museam around 2006.

Very nice. I love Chicago !

Thanks for the memories.

I was there chasing 765 that day, it was fun!

That's a fantastic document of SF at that time. I lived there most of the 90s (at the corner of Powell and Bush seen here!) and this video instantly brought me back! Thank you for posting!

As a kid in the sixties i recall that display, i think Santa Fe sponsored the model railroad. Good video.

Probably the best fidelity video and audio I’ve seen about a GG1

Very nice. I always find the spaghetti network of tracks in those stations amazing.

Very nice. Surprised to see a Bessimer REA car. How did that end up there?

I liked when that steam train was whistling, It was the most iconic train whistle in the world and some people use recordings of it in videos that might involve trains since 2000 to today. I really enjoyed this video.

Great video, well done!

The New York and Long Branch Railroad, where locomotives, motors, and rolling stock go to die.

I remember when the steam engine ran and then the G G 1 would go then come back to South Amboy and then go to the mu yard and then the steam would make the Bay Head run I was born in South Amboy and I was born in December 19th 1951

4876 is definitely my favorite GG1

My mother's Aunt lived on John St. I would walk up to the tracks crossing and watch the swap out whenever we visited her. '74-'75 time period.

Always enjoyable to see these busy spots.

Thanks so much for catching us with #SleepingCarBerlin and #BlueRidgeClub

Beautiful catches!

5:04 hey coach 301. Before it got converted to open air and scrapped in 06. Would be nice to see a replica of that car one day.

Man!!!!! She was a monster!!!!

Nobody thought a Big Boy would run again. All it takes is a lot of money....

I remember when they used the Baldwin "Sharknose" diesel back in the 50's through the mid 60s

Thank god they don't exist anymore! Because this would be my nightmare. I wouldn't want to experience a ride on a GG1!

Please upload this and stick with the original aspect ratio of 4:3. there is a HUGE discrepancy especially in the model train hobby about the size and shape of these engines, that is made even worse by a stretched wide video of a 1983 when wide screen was not a thing for video recording except maybe in a movie theater. The view at 1:35, 2:00, and 3:28 make this more obvious as well as I have a copy of the same engine and in the right aspect ratio it is not pixelated on the screen.

Great video thank you

It's a crying shame they ever took these things off the rails. I still don't understand why one of the remaining examples couldn't be refurbished with modern components.

on paper if someone could restore a GG1 it could still run on some parts of the NEC, Afaik the current owner Amtrak has not changed the electricity any and the overheads are still using the same voltage and frequency. I cant remember if NYC through NJ to DC is 25hz or 60hz

There is one or two of these on an overgrown siding in Cooperstown Junction, NY - just North of Oneonta (Big D&H town back in the day), along route 7 just past the turnoff to go to Cooperstown.

Makes you wonder if someone could restore one to operate on today’s lines.

yea awesome catch with a horn and whistle battle

I like how the trains respond to each other and why does the Strasburg Railroad connect to Amtrak

These machines were one of the main ones that I looked at that never made it difficult for them to carry everything they could pull, I had to look at the impressive Milwaukee ones

I unfortunately was born in 84 which I believe was the year these giant beauties were all retired. I missed these trains when they were on revenue service. Thanks a lot MOM!

So would i 😮😅😊

Here in new Zealand way down in Christchurch back in the early 70's we said goodbye to our electric locomotives on the Christchurch to Lyttleton suburban trains. These electric locomotives were built specifically for the line to the port,for both freight and passenger trains.the Ec class were built by English Electric in the 1920's to replace steam on the port run.only one was saved and can be seen under its own power once in a while.along with the other electric lico used on the Arthur's pass section through to otira on the trans alpine route from Christchurch to Greymouth. Plus there are a couple of ex Wellington EMU sets along with the electric locomotives that replaced the original Eo class locos these replacement units were built by Toshiba engineering of Japan,and these locos were phased out when the railways became a corporation in the 90's. The Toshiba locos were eventually used on Wellington suburban trains due to a shortage of suburban EMUs

My son and I were back in the train, that day. We framed the poster, invitation, and tickets, and seat checks. It doesn't seem like 40 years.

'promosm'

Kingston(RI)?

Very nice information and video, however the wide screen video was not out until the 1990's so having this as a wide screen video stretches the thing to wide and and to low....

Do you have any videos of GG1 through Jamesburg NJ?

Is that locomotive like from 1940's ? It looks wonderful! The time when locomotive design had its charm and style. Not the modern angular stuff.

40 years ago next week

Nice

1:33 That’s Pascack Valley Line 2112 from Spring Valley, and I was onboard.

40 year anniversary in 6 days

Amtrak GG-1s ran until 1986 ? in rush hour service pulling the old heavy weight cars . Nice engine . I rode this train regularly out of Penn Station New York . Definitely not 1981or 1983 , although these dates may have been the last regular service dates.