Enjoy this Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Engraved Wooden Sign / PRR Wall Decoration for yourself or as a gift. The GG1 is a great locomotive on the Pennsylvania Railroad. This Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 Sign with the GG1 locomotive measures 6 x 10 oval and is engraved in solid cherry wood. This makes an ideal gift for the railroad fan, retiree, or as a birthday gift or man cave decoration. Check out the green GG1 coffee mug too !

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To learn more about the actual GG1 locomotive, please enjoy this wiki write up. To begin, The GG1 was 79 feet 6 inches (24.23 m) long and weighed 475,000 pounds (215,000 kg).^[2] The frame of the locomotive was in two halves joined with a ball and socket joint, allowing the locomotive to negotiate sharper curves.^[3] The body rested on the frame and was clad in welded steel plates. The control cabs were near the center of the locomotive on each side of the main oil-cooled transformer and oil-fired train-heating boiler.

This arrangement, first used on the PRR’s Modified P5 class, provided for greater crew safety in a collision and provided for bi-directional operation of the locomotive.^[4] Using Whyte notation for steam locomotives, each frame is a 4-6-0 locomotive, which in the Pennsylvania Railroad classification system is a “G”. The GG1 has two such frames back to back, 4-6-0+0-6-4. The related AAR wheel arrangement classification is 2-C+C-2. This means one frame mounted upon a set of two axles unpowered (the “2”) and three axles powered (the “C”) hinged with the ball and socket to another frame of the same design (the +). The unpowered “2” axles are at either end of the locomotive. The GG1 was equipped with Leslie A200 horn.