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Post by Traindiesel! on Jan 29, 2024 23:38:36 GMT
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I prefer scale model trains these days but I still love my few post war and semi scale trains. I have thirteen other scale GG1s from MTH, Lionel, 3Rd Rail and Williams. (Hmmm, I should probably even out that number). Even when my roster needed SEVERE downsizing, I never owned 13 scale GG-1's. You win the "buying trains like a drunken sailor" award HANDS DOWN!!! LOL!!! 
The best part of owning a semi-scale GG-1 and running it with a string of Lionel Madison cars is the nostalgia factor of Lionel using that train on its legendary 1949 Showroom Layout in NYC. It was a staple train running on the outside loop down to the subway level of that magnificent layout.
As much as I love all of my trains, I’ve never looked upon them with nostalgia. Mostly because they were always around. But even as an adolescent I detested having to be tethered to the ZW. I was always dreaming of something better. Imagine my glee when command control was born! Especially when I could still control my older trains with a remote controller.
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Post by rockymountaineer on Jan 29, 2024 23:45:12 GMT
... As much as I love all of my trains, I’ve never looked upon them with nostalgia. Mostly because they were always around. But even as an adolescent I detested having to be tethered to the ZW. I was always dreaming of something better. Imagine my glee when command control was born! Especially when I could still control my older trains with a remote controller.
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Post by eddieg on Jan 30, 2024 1:36:52 GMT
I have several GG1's all of them are from 1947 to 1958. All original with full stripes. My favorite engine. In around 1954 I was working as a page at NBC at 30 rock. a fellow page Came to work with a 2330 new in the box. He sold it to me for $25. I kept it for a while, and then took it out to train world and traded it for a mantua HO steam engine. I'm still kicking myself.
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Post by Traindiesel! on Jan 30, 2024 1:52:53 GMT
... As much as I love all of my trains, I’ve never looked upon them with nostalgia. Mostly because they were always around. But even as an adolescent I detested having to be tethered to the ZW. I was always dreaming of something better. Imagine my glee when command control was born! Especially when I could still control my older trains with a remote controller.
 They’d probably try to burn me on a stake!
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Post by Traindiesel! on Jan 30, 2024 1:57:37 GMT
I have several GG1's all of them are from 1947 to 1958. All original with full stripes. My favorite engine. In around 1954 I was working as a page at NBC 30 rock. a fellow page Came to work with a 2330 new in the box. He sold it to me for $25. I kept it for a while, and then took it out to train world and traded it for a mantua HO steam engine. I'm still kicking myself.
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They’d probably try to burn me on a stake!