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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

DEbluedude

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2. I was fortunate enough to work G's (as we called them) in the mid-to late seventies

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Oct 30, 2019, 07:15 PM

Oct 2019

Wash-NY Metroliner Service. A G, and 4-5 Amfleet cars. It was a rush operating a 50 -year old engine that seemed to float along at 80 MPH. Those were the days!

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On October 29, 1983, a GG1 locomotive ran for the last time. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2019 OP

I was stationed st Ft Monmouth NJ in 1966. I rode the bus wasupaloopa Oct 2019 #1

I was fortunate enough to work G's (as we called them) in the mid-to late seventies DEbluedude Oct 2019 #2

Those were great machines Vogon_Glory Nov 2019 #3

Thanks for the memories. Those locomotives were so magnificent. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2019 #4