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From: cb@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Christopher Byrnes)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Electrified freight railroads
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 16:59:01 EST
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  With the last GG1s taken out of service on NJDOT, all the remaining
units are for sale to whoever will pay to have them hauled away.
Perhaps NJDOT is keeping a few on standby, but I'll bet the units you
saw are awaiting shipment to their new owners.  Several rail museums
have purchased GG1s, I read that one had their's repainted to the
original colors.  That may be the unit you saw.  NJDOT may have also
had one unit repainted to original colors for old times sakes.  Don't
despair, with steam fans digging out old steam locomotives and
rerunning them it may only be a matter of time before the GG1 returns.

					Christopher Byrnes
					cb@Mitre-Bedford.ARPA
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