sullivan@acf4.UUCP (10/10/84)
Last year (if I recall correctly) Model Railroader published scale drawings of the American Coal Enterprises ACE-1000 coal/steam engine. A.C.E. designed it as a cost effective loco. At a train festival in Hoboken, NJ, I saw a parlor car with the A.C.E. name on it, but alas didn't get a chance to visit. Does anyone know what American Coal Enterprises is doing of late? David Sullivan, ...ihnp4!cmcl2!sullivan Also, any GG1 fanatics out there?
chaltas@uiucdcsb.UUCP (10/14/84)
> 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!uiucdcsres@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt) (10/16/84)
| They [GG-1's] have always been rather scarce in the boondocks of | Illinois though. NOT ANY MORE !!! The Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois ('way west of Chicago) has acquired a GG-1. Anyone in the Midwest who is a train enthusiast or a trolley enthusiast and who has not visited Union has missed a fine museum with many restored and operating pieces of equipment (from a shay to a Zephyr). It is especially fun to visit on Members' Day when anything that can operate does. Rich Strebendt ...!ihnp4!ihuxn!res
essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs) (10/16/84)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GG1's are no longer as scarce in the boondocks of Illinos. There is one at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL (about 60 miles northwest of Chicago on I-90). -- Ed Sachs AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs