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Bill Sample

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Re: Running a GG1
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2009, 12:36:43 PM »
Having such small windshields did have a safety advantage when it came to vandalism acts such as "low flying refrigerators" dumped from overpasses.

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Re: Running a GG1
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2009, 10:01:52 PM »
I have a film of the G's in operation and they were amazing machines. I remember one shot where one of them blasts through a station with a long passenger train and it's going so fast the pressure wave in front of it literally shoves the cameraman back a couple of feet.

I only saw one under power once when I was a teenager. I was on the LIRR platforms in Penn Station and one rolled through in Amtrak colors on its way under the East River to Sunnyside. It was quiet, and very big.

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Re: Running a GG1
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2009, 01:35:51 AM »
Back when the new, super-duper Metroliners had first come out, a friend and I paid the premium to ride one from New York to Washington. As we were zipping along enjoying the high speed, a dark shadow appeared outside our window. It was a GG1-powered train overtaking us! Fortunately for our pride and investment, it was a local and had to stop at the next station.