Bach-man:

Any idea when the corrected Dulux Gold single stripe GG1 will be re-released?
Looking forward to it.

Thanks

The EF-3s had a short time rating of 10,000HP. By all means they should have been around a lot longer. One EF-3 was good for 125 cars; it took 4 GP9s to do the same thing. . .real economics there Mr. McGinnis. The EF-3s were only 16 years old when Alpert pulled the plug on electrification. By 1963 it was apparent to the trustees that the McGinnis/Alpert motive power policies concerning the electrics was a HUGE mistake. Ironically, the de-electrification by the N&W of the former VGN was a blessing for the NH. The NH trustees also checked out the EL-2b's; they were too high for the NH.

I asked about the ACS-64 and the reply from Bachmann was that they had no plans at this time to make one.

I'd like to see a nice Lima-Hamilton 1200HP switcher.

That's great!!
Looking forward to getting one.

I will definitely be looking forward to it. Is the GG1 with the "feathered" stripes still scheduled for a November release?

Thanks!!

Bach-man:

Do you have any idea as to when the corrected large keystone GG1 scheme will be released?

Thank you,
Rick

Rich:

I retired from the Housatonic as Sup't in 2012. I started on the NH in 2/68.

Rick

I'll be looking forward to getting the corrected GG1.
Thank you Bachmann for your rapid response.

Rich:

I posted a response on the "E33" thread.

Rick

Couple of items.
The EP-3's were never Hunter Green and Gold. In the Hunter Green scheme they had pearl-gray striping and lettering. They had DuLux Gold striping when they were in #13 Pullman Green and Imitation Gold when repainted in #401 Exterior Green.

The NH never had an E33 or a "Brick."
On the VGN and N&W they were class EL-C, NH class EF-4, PC and CR E33.
On the NH they were referred to as "Virginians."
This "Brick" thing comes from H. Reid's book on the VGN where he said "The EL-C's possessed the beauty of misshapen bricks."

Rich: The reason the NH would run with one pan raised for the 2 units was to save wear. Since the NH was bankrupt, even a pantograph was too expensive an item. The rectifiers for example were $3K each in 1964! Sometimes, not often they would run 3 EF-4s to make up for missing rectifier tubes.
The 301 and 303 were fitted with experimental Faively pans which were eventually damaged and never replaced with a conventional pan. As was stated earlier, when running single pan only, the 11000V bus was used. Never saw photos of this situation on either the VGN or N&W.

I see you are producing the GG1s in N Scale in the last PRR scheme with a correct keystone on the side of the engine.
On the HO model this keystone is incorrect; letters and outline of the keystone are buff gold, should be white. Will this be corrected on the HO model?

Thank you.