From: rcp27@nospam.ac.uk   
      
   On 2015-03-21 17:38:19 +0000, John Albert said:   
      
   > On 3/21/15 1:21 PM, bob wrote:   
   >> Electric locomotives of that era were heavy but not bulky.   
   >> The GG1, under its elegant streamlined   
   >> body, is in many ways similar.  With improvements in technology post-war   
   >> weights went down, so the number of axles was reduced significantly,   
   >> leading to much more compact machines.   
   >   
   > The GG-1 was anything but "not bulky" inside.   
   > What space there was, was jam-packed with equipment, leaving little   
   > room for a man to move around inside them.   
   >   
   > I know, I spent time "inside them" moving them around!   
      
   I don't doubt that the GG1 were "compact" inside, but the basic layout,   
   with the cabs a long way back and the narrow "nose" sections sacrifices   
   a lot of potential internal space that would be available with a   
   cab-at-the-end layout.  My point is the layout sacrifices a lot of   
   potential internal space because the internal equipment didn't need it.   
      
   Robin   
      
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