GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

I'm not much on passenger stuff, but I gotta admit you are doing some very cool work! Those new kits look to be some nice fixer-uppers. Keep up the good work!

Absolutely! these kits were $165 new a piece not to many years ago, and because they were IHP's Earliest offerings, they had their own problems (the frame length issue couldn't be the fault of the previous owner).

To be honest, the only reason I even have grown so much on these MUs are because they are so ubiquitous. I really wish i could find (let alone afford) more GG1s in Conrail paint to run triple-headed like i see in the old photographs pulling some epic freight train (right now, only my rectifiers fill in that role). Electric freight is my primary fascination, as it has died off here in this country.

However, as one person put it to me, "You wouldn't have to wait long to see a PRR MU traveling in either direction at anytime you were track-side of a PRR electrified line, often both at the same time." Unless i modeled something like the Columbia & Port Deposit branch, or some other smaller pennsy freight lines, the MP54s, Silverliners, or Arrows were the most frequent sights under wire. No one could accurately claim to model famous routes like the Northeast Corridor without a few of these trains.

Just to show how far my MU fleet has grown (trust me, even I'M SHOCKED at this), this is just what i have right now. There is a good chance I'll get 3 more pairs of Arrow IIIs EMUs (those light gray kits lined up on the right), and i'm definitely going to invest in more Silverliner IVs (the Reading unit from early, but in both Reading and Penn Central). The only cars missing from this shot are a pair of MP54 kits by Funaro and Camerlengo (though you can see one in the broadside shot of the Silverliner III on my highway bridge).



Also, I finally bought one piece of highway equipment that has been missing for quite some time, an NJ transit bus to match the railroad. Gotta love the NJtransit.com product placement.