Hello, my name is Oliver and I'am normaly found at the Z-scale section but my question could not be answered there.... I own a Marklin PRR GG1 in and want to make the lights more prototypical. There are the headlights in the front and rear which could be dimmend for several reasons. To the left and right of the headlight there are two small lights. What color and function to them? Are they read if the loco runs backwards? There is also a light at each side of each end (?). I found the PRR book of rules but no answer to my question.... Could somebody help me? Best, Oliver Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
GG1 lights I believe what you are referring to are the small lenses in front of the illuminated numberboards on either side of the nose of GG1's. These were originally classification lights. On a normal train they were not illuminated. On an extra (non-scheduled) train, they would have been lit white, while a train with a second or additional section following would have had green lights. But, the Pennsylvania quit using class lights around World War II, so for most of their existence, there weren't even any bulbs in those lights! The numberboards were illuminated, though. :cat: Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
So if you are a model railroader who wants to put lights in your loco, either white or green or both would be acceptable then. It would be acceptable then to have switchable white and green lights in the model. One would turn on the white light to signal the train is an extra that is not traveling a normal scheduled route, or green to signal that it is not normally scheduled and there is another train right behind it, like a extra for a sports event or fairgrounds special. :shade: Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
Robert, I do believe thirdrail has pretty well sewn that up for you. In all my years of watching PRR/PC I never saw those light working except for a few rare occations. Most of the time the lenses where blacked out. Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
A buddy of mine got to ride in a GG1 once, and said the throttle had like 23 notches, and each notch had to be racheted to move the the throttle. Some piece of machinery!
Good point. I was in one. #4877 was restored & on our property in Hoboken. While in class,our teacher who ran them,took us out to it. Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
Hello to you all and thank you for your replies. Regarding to the different answers I have atached a picture wherein I have added some letters. A - Headlight, low-beam, high beam - are they both dimmed or only one for low beam and the second added for high beam? If so, which one (upper or lower) is low beam? B - white at the opposite end of headlights? C - green or white, like B? Sorry for my missunderstanding but it seems that this question is not as easy as I thought. Best, Oliver Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
Hey, "A" the headlight- both are on together.The headlight switch has 2 settings,"brite or dim".The lights don't work independently of each other. "B & C" work together.They are classification Lts. Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
White would signify an extra train, not on a schedule. Green would signify an second (or third, fourth) section of a regular train. Example, hot passenger train #1 is being run in 2 parts. The first part of #1 runs with green markers, the second part runs behind the first part with no markers. Green markers does not signify that any old train is behind the first one. Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
"B" and "C" were not illuminated at all after the early 1940's on the PRR. There were no bulbs in them. So, to be prototypical, they should NOT be lit. :shade: Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
Hello and thanks to you all! There is one last (hopefully) question: Are the marker lights (if used) are lit at the end of the direction in which the loco runs or are they lit at both ends, independent of the locos direction? Best, Oliver Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
To be honest I dont remeber any of thembeing lit ever. But from seeing other Pennsy engines I would assume ( bad word) but the front would be lit in the direction of travel. Tony Copyright 2008 Jerry DeBene
