137-2025 GG1 Amtrak Ph1 906 option-set-232 LOCOMOTIVE NAME Sir Ernest Shackleton

LOCOMOTIVE NAME Sir Ernest Shackleton

Coupler cut levers

Sprung buffers are fitted to each bufferbeam

or on non-electrified lines via a diesel engine

it contains all you need to fit out a typical signal box including a 20-lever frame and a level crossing operating wheel

137-2025 GG1 Amtrak Ph1 906 option-set-232 LOCOMOTIVE NAME Sir Ernest ShackletonThe GG1, one of the PRRs most famous and recognizable locomotives, is also one of the most curiously designed. Technically two locomotives under one shell (a G class locomotive is a 4 6 0 by PRR specification, therefore the GG1 was two G locomotives in a 4 6 0: 0 6 4 arrangement). This added up to a 4. 6k horsepower locomotive that was staggeringly powerful, even by todays standards. Designed in the 20s, built in 30s, and not retired until the 80s,