Public Transportation and Smart Growth

I rode behind GG-1s several times when they ran on Pennsy territory on the Amtrak-era Broadway Limited and later after they’d taken over the old New Haven’s electrified Shore Line between New York’s Penn Station and the former New Haven station at New Haven.

To me, the G’s were not simply relics of a bygone era in American industrial design and American railroading, but a symbol of American engineering prowess and a willingness to build and maintain our infrastructure, promises not kept for the last thirty-plus Years.