Test Track:- Lionel 1989 Amtrak GG-1 Set

We take it a little farther back into the 1970's before coming back to the present, with Lionel's GG-1 Amtrak set released in 1989. This is my first passenger set, and it actually made it's maiden run on a couple of floor layouts and a friend's setup in Long Island way back then. This set includes the "super dome" car that was made after the set's release, filling in the numbering gap in the passenger cars of the original release.

I chose to put this set out to provide a contrast with the next set to run the test track, a hint of which can be seen peeking out into the shot during one of my 'proof I'm single' shots. Between the twin "coffee grinder" motors and the aluminum-bodied coaches, this train makes a tremendous racket while running. It also didn't help that I left the E-unit engaged, adding it's buzz to the general cacophony. And yes, I know that dome cars didn't run on the 'Corridor--this was just how Lionel outfitted their passenger trains in that era.

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• model
• train
• Lionel
• O-Gauge
• GG-1
• Amtrak
• heritage
• passenger
• aluminum

[switchstand]

This is a great looking passenger set!

[RailRide]

Polished aluminum makes it classy :)

[Roadracer987654321]

I have the Lionel Amtrak GG-1 in the box never used . I bought the 2 floor Amtrak Passenger Cars too. Got 3 of them. I bought them from a Retired Manager from Pan,Am.

[SpyroTheDragon1267]

RIP headphone users

[joebob3719]

@grizzleybearz282004 The pullman's are black (i think, the lighting at grandmas is always terrible), I wouldn't be surprised to find out when my grandpa did run the GG1 it was on curves that the poor thing could just barely manage. If that fix did work I couldn't touch it anyway, because while it is my grandma's, my uncle has claims to it and he would throw me into a river with a limestone around my neck if he found out I did anything to mod it.

[grizzleybearz282004]

@joebob3719 i gussing you have the 1947 to 1949 #2332 gg1 without magnetracion with one pullmor motor pullman passenger set do you have the brunswick green or the black #2332 i did hear something awhile back about them derailing on the curves it has something to do with the the front or rear turning wheel trucks it is fixable just google it also make sure your useing qt lease o-31 or higher curve tracks o-27 which was very common track will derail it too shape

[joebob3719]

@grizzleybearz282004 Also, GG1s are classy engines aren't they? Most of the modern passenger engines look like somebody hit a toaster with a rock and taped wheels to it (except the Acela). My grandma has a Lionel GG1 without magna-traction sitting on her mantelpiece (my grandpa never ran it often, without magna-traction the thing would just fall off the tracks), it even still had the Post-war Lionel Pullman passenger cars. I tested it one xmas a few years ago, and surprisingly it worked.

[joebob3719]

@grizzleybearz282004

Oh I'm sorry, I feel like a butt. I didn't realize it was for your vision. Its just most people use all caps to symbolize yelling when simple English can't get their point across, and for those who abuse it gets annoying, just like yelling in real life. Although for an internet protip, hitting the ctrl and + in your web browser will make webpage bigger, and ctrl and - will make it smaller. If you use those you can adjust the screen size to your liking.

[grizzleybearz282004]

hey i wanted to ask you what do you use to keep or briten up those aluminum streamliners up with i have a lionel #2341 jersey central trainmaster fm set lionel made back in 1956 that has three of the 2500 series alminum stramliners and i would like to get them to look alittle better then they do there ok looking now but it wouldnt hurt to get alittle more gloss out of them yours are realy shape looking

[grizzleybearz282004]

@joebob3719 lol no im not yelling believe me others will know when im yelling with or without caps before would use caps because it made it alittle ezer to see what im typeing i have issues with my vision and slowly going blind but since it because such a big deal to some pepole i started takeing my time typeing without the caps on but hey isnt that a pretty nice gg1 set in the video i wasnt realy a fan of the gg1 in amtrak colors always liked the green & red gg1s but i started to like it

[joebob3719]

@grizzleybearz282004 Why are you yelling? Does something about Lionel make you really excited or angry? FYI ALL CAPITALS MEANS YELLING ON THE INTERNET! TURN THE CAPSLOCK OFF!!! (caps intended).