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I think Tuscan Red is a very gorgeous, and undeniably fitting color scheme for a PRR "GG1" electric locomotive to be truthful, especially with the golden speed stripes like on 6229 Duchess of Hamilton! I can't believe the "Pennsy" Railroad used their GG1s from 1942-82. The PRR's authorities even sold a few to Amtrak, too!

The GG1s' casing was designed by Raymond Loewy, who was also famous for designing the "T1" "Duplexes" (one new 53rd one, #5550, is being constructed from new by its owners, the T1 Trust in Pennsylvania) and their somewhat "Bullet" predecessor, the lone "S1" Duplex, #6100. The PRR's history also noted the presence of the experimental steam-turbine-driven locomotive, #6200, the largest direct-drive steam turbine ever built. The London, Midland & Scottish Railway should have built a second "Turbomotive" for us! This one was my first-ever red GG1. In fact, it was the first GG1 locomotive I ever saw! This one, 4890, is preserved at the Green Bay National Railroad Museum with Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Big Boy" #4017, one of two preserved GM "Aero-trains," and a half-taken-apart narrow gauge logging country steam engine on a flatcar. I love railroading, as it's colored my life like Flying Scotsman colored Sir William/Bill McAlpine's life for twenty-three years from 1973-1996. This Tuscan Red "GG1" has a color scheme not dissimilar to that of "Coronation" class Pacific #6229 Duchess of Hamilton, only re-streamlined with the LMSR's "publicity" casing like that of its first-born sister, #46220 Coronation, only built in 1937 as a cousin to that of #46201 Princess Lizzie and #46203 Princess Margaret Rose. I hope you like it .

Description
I think Tuscan Red is a very gorgeous, and undeniably fitting color scheme for a PRR "GG1" electric locomotive to be truthful, especially with the golden speed stripes like on 6229 Duchess of Hamilton! I can't believe the "Pennsy" Railroad used their GG1s from 1942-82. The PRR's authorities even sold a few to Amtrak, too!

The GG1s' casing was designed by Raymond Loewy, who was also famous for designing the "T1" "Duplexes" (one new 53rd one, #5550, is being constructed from new by its owners, the T1 Trust in Pennsylvania) and their somewhat "Bullet" predecessor, the lone "S1" Duplex, #6100. The PRR's history also noted the presence of the experimental steam-turbine-driven locomotive, #6200, the largest direct-drive steam turbine ever built. The London, Midland & Scottish Railway should have built a second "Turbomotive" for us! This one was my first-ever red GG1. In fact, it was the first GG1 locomotive I ever saw! This one, 4890, is preserved at the Green Bay National Railroad Museum with Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Big Boy" #4017, one of two preserved GM "Aero-trains," and a half-taken-apart narrow gauge logging country steam engine on a flatcar. I love railroading, as it's colored my life like Flying Scotsman colored Sir William/Bill McAlpine's life for twenty-three years from 1973-1996. This Tuscan Red "GG1" has a color scheme not dissimilar to that of "Coronation" class Pacific #6229 Duchess of Hamilton, only re-streamlined with the LMSR's "publicity" casing like that of its first-born sister, #46220 Coronation, only built in 1937 as a cousin to that of #46201 Princess Lizzie and #46203 Princess Margaret Rose. I hope you like it .