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Amtrak
(No.5160-D)
Amtrak (Silver, Red w/Blue Stripe)
(No.5160-04)
AHM's 1980 catalog features this version of the Amtrak GG-1 on its cover. Additionally, that
year's catalog includes this same Amtrak GG-1 powering the company's National Limited (No.67834) train set. As an individual
release, I find this silver, red with blue stripe Amtrak GG-1 only in the 1980 catalog and it sold for $119.98 that year.
Amtrak Savings Bond
(No.5161-05)
Centennial Blue -American Railroads
(No.5160-F)
Conrail Bicentennial
(No.5161-03)
Pennsylvania (Brunswick Green)
(No.5160-C)
(No.17012)
Pennsylvania (Tuscan Red)
(No.5160-B)
(No.5160-02)
(No.17011)
Perhaps the longest lived example of the Rivarossi-made GG-1 in the AHM line is this example.
A 1973 AHM price list calls for a $39.98 retail price. The August 1977 price list has this same model at $59.98.
The 1980 price is $119.98. The "-B" stock number is the original dating back to 1970 and the model's introduction.
The "-02" comes along in the late '70s. The model's final appearance for AHM is found in the 1981 catalog and that year
it carries the "17011" stock number. Rivarossi of Italy later sold the GG-1 model under its own name in the United States.
Pennsylvania (Single Yellow Stripe)
(No.17013)
Pennsylvania (Silver)
(No.5160-08)
This silver Pennsy GG-1 appears to enter AHM's line in the late '70s, though
it is gone from the line according to the 1981 catalog. AHM's 1980 price list states this silver Pennsy example
carried a retail price of $119.98.
 
Spirit of '76
(No.5161-02)
AHM's GG-1 is featured in Model Railroader's Trade Topics column in
the May 1970 edition of the magazine. The then-new HO-scale GG-1 imported by AHM is reviewed beginning on page
19.
The final year AHM catalogs the GG-1 is in its 1981 product catalog. Rivarossi of Italy, who
manufactured this model for AHM, did sell GG-1 models under its own name following the early '80s departure of this electric
from AHM's roster.
Though some many assume that IHC's recent offerings of the GG-1 are the
same model as the former AHM, this is not the case. I have confirmed with IHC that the tooling it has used
in recent times is based on the former Pemco GG-1 offering.
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