Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 4:43 pm
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Trainz "short GG-1"
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Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 4:49 pm
A lot closer, missing a main axle and the curvature of the roof line is off. Way better than the butcher job on the lettering of the NYC box cab in the other post.
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 9:09 pm
Strange.
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 9:21 pm
I wonder it the builder tried a "what-if PRR did a streamlined version" of an O-1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylva ... d_class_O1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylva ... d_class_O1
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 9:27 pm
Look up a P-5A
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 12:11 am
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 7:42 am
Maybe that was the thought but it didn't quite make it.
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 11:31 am
rogruth wrote:Maybe that was the thought but it didn't quite make it.
You are a very generous person..........
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 12:56 pm
The person that actually built the unit probably did know it was an attempt at a P-5A. It is being sold "used" as a "short GG-1" probably because most people wouldn't even know there was a P-5A.
Pretty nice work and they got a lot of the P-5A "right". Extra middle truck axle (even a "dummy") and moving the pantographs nearer the center cab would have made the model more accurate. I wonder what made him (or her) make the weird roof line. Did it start life as a kitbash of a "traditional" GG-1 shell?
Pretty nice work and they got a lot of the P-5A "right". Extra middle truck axle (even a "dummy") and moving the pantographs nearer the center cab would have made the model more accurate. I wonder what made him (or her) make the weird roof line. Did it start life as a kitbash of a "traditional" GG-1 shell?
Re: Trainz "short GG-1"
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 1:50 pm
chuck wrote:The person that actually built the unit probably did know it was an attempt at a P-5A. It is being sold "used" as a "short GG-1" probably because most people wouldn't even know there was a P-5A.
Person who wrote the listing probably doesn't know there was a P-5A. Everything is a GG1 to some people.
Did it start life as a kitbash of a "traditional" GG-1 shell?
Probably.