Right up there with the best layouts, Janis. A fun trip around your City Branch with nice scenery and my favorite GG1’s. Outstanding video shots trackside and overhead, definitely fun to watch.
Your camera work is as nice as your layout.
Great attention to detail. Fun to look at as the canera scans the layout!
Really enjoyed the GG-1’s! Nice video shots too!
Great job!!!
The video does not open or run on my iPad any suggestion?
Blank page…is there charge to see this?
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Great looking layout and the GG-1 looks great on it. It seems to be a natural fit to what you’ve constructed. I had the opportunity years ago to ride the Pennsy portion of the Southern Crescent from NY to DC on my way to New Orleans and on the head end was a GG-1. I was delighted to see it there in Penn Station. This would have been back in summer of '69. Also there’s a GG-1 at our local Railroad museum in Frisco, TX – used to be located near Fair Park in Downtown Dallas but they had to move. (Another story best left alone) Thanks for sharing this video – good job on the video work too.
One comment further – I’m going to assume you’re a guy though the name Janis reminds me of a woman’s name. I only bring this up because if you are a woman then this is a rarity because I personally know very few women interested in the hobby. Just curious – and nothing more.
I’m a woman George. LOL. Women loving trains in not as rare a thing as you believe it to be.
Great layout and video. it is very relaxing just watching the trains go by.
Great layout Janis!
You have given me some ideas for one I am planning.
Thanks Janis for the video of your GG-1’s in action on your layout.Janis coincidentally was my mothers twin sisters name ,my moms name is Janet, (Grandmother named them after twins on a 1940’s radio show she use to listen to).
Seeing that women are indeed involved with model railroading should bring to the editor’s attention of a special run of CTT of " Women in Model Railroading", or a new feature article for each month in the magazine …hhhhhhmmmmmm 
Really nice Janet! I like your many videos, keep it up!
The GG-1’s in the video are experimental units powered by fuel cells. Since the electricity is generated from inside of the unit, there is no need for a raised pantograph…Just kidding folks.
Like many eastern roads of the past, my road does indeed have tight clearances (Can you say “Rat Hole” boys and girls?). A fully extended pantograph clears the Lionel signal bridge and my tunnel portals by less than one-eighth of an inch. Under the mountain, the structural cross-members actually foul a fully extended pantograph.
When I built the layout I never envisioned owning a GG-1 or any other electric locomotive. My Wabash Brakeman Car doesn’t fair any better. The poor little guy was hospitalized for a week with a concussion when I dispatched the car on a southbound freight.
Perhaps on day I’ll undertake a line clearance project (Maybe I should apply for funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). Meanwhile…the G’s look pretty awesome even with their pantographs in the down position. I must say that the G’s are absolutely my best pullers as they handle my test train as though it was made of paper. They are indeed awesome. Thanks to all for the positive comments.
-Janis
Do you have clearance issues on your layout, otherwise why do you run the GG-1’s with the pantographs in the down position?
I like the Congressional Limited scenes.
Janis, we enjoyed your video very much. Have you tried tying the pantograph down with a piece of black sewing thread, where they would look half way up/down?
Great trains you have! Enjoy and keep on trackin’
Hi Janis- Your layout is great, as is the operation. There is plenty of room for your G’s to stretch their legs. I am a railfan as well as a Lionel operator. I had the good fortrune to be able to photograph many of the real G’s on the Northeast Corridor in Newark when I worked there. The line was only 3 blocks from wher I worked. I was able to photograph every Amtral, Conrail and NJ Transit G still running. I was even able to catch the original G, #4800 in its bicentennial scheme! Also on a fantrip I visited the Wilmington shops where the G’s were serviced. There were more than 50 units still on the property and I shot them all! 4945 the green 5-stripe unit was was repainted and run by Amtrak was in the shop. We requested that they move her outside so we could take better photos and they did. Great!! I have been in the cabs of several G’s. One of my biggest thrills was I happened to be in a hobby shop in Westfield and I heard a man telling the owner that they were painting a tuscan G in the NJ Transit shop at that time. II asked him if it could be seen and he said yes. I went home and told my son, also a railfan and we went right there. The G was all tuscan and it was masked for the stripes ans logos. I went into the office and piolitely aasked if we could go in to take pix. He said yes, but don’t climb on anything. I said Yes Sir! and away we went. This was the second G repainted, #4877. Afterward, I had the pleasure of photographing both of these engines, in service on the road. I always feel that in relation to the G’s, Ive been very lucky. It’s been great.
If I may, I’d like to give you some friendly advice on your wish to rpait your PC G. Don’t do it! The finish and the logo are great and even if the number isn’t accurate, they are. My advice is, buy a tuscan G. My first O gauge G was a Williams green 5-striper and she runs great. The second was a tuscan 5-stripe by K Line, also great. When Lionel announced the “Conventional Classics” group starting in
As a person lucky enough to see the Penn Central GG1’s run on "the Trenton cutoff when it was still electrified, I would say “keep it PC”
Janis, With GG-1s I just had to watch again and comment. You have a spectacular layout with great operation. As you said, nothing sounds like a G running! Both trains look great. I was lucky to see a Barnum and Bailey circus train heading for New York and it stopped right in front of me. The animals were getting restless, I could hear the elephants stomping ( the cars were actually rocking when they were doing their thing!) and the lions were roaring. Enjoy your G’s!