VIRGINIAN 132

ID# 27,412

VIRGINIAN 132

Virginian rectifier unit No. 132 pulling a National Railway Historical Society Special, with Norfolk & Western coaches, east into the yard at Roanoke, Va. This Railfan special ran in 1957.

NEW HAVEN 322

ID# 24,044

NEW HAVEN 322

A 1927 Baldwin-Westinghouse built electric at Danbury, Conn., about to make a fast trip down the branch to Norwalk, then into New York City via the main line. No. 322 was snapped in 1958 with only a year left before it was scrapped. Note the new paint scheme which only a very few of the older electrics ever received.

Ben Perry photo- N.D. Clark collection

New Haven Railroad Locomotive #6 on May 17, 1942

ID# 61,217

Amtrak Locomotive #914 at Washington, D. C. on June 29, 1981

ID# 42,358

Amtrak Electric Locomotive #920 at New Haven, Connecticut on October 14, 1990

ID# 42,241

Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation's "Number 1975"

ID# 53,490

Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation's "Number 1975"

This EMD Class GM 6 C Locomotive was built as a Demonstrator and is the first pure electric locomotive built by EMD. This 6,000 horse-power locomotive is viewed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, while undergoing tests with the Penn Central.

Photo Courtesy: Ronald N. Johnson

Amtrak Locomotive #925 at Washington, D. C. on April 13, 1982

ID# 42,362

WORLD'S FIRST PRIVATE SUBWAY

ID# 24,029

* WORLD'S FIRST PRIVATE SUBWAY

* Through Bluffs of Trinity river To

* SKYHIGH FORT WORTH, TEXAS

This is the first privately owned, department store subway in the world. Two of its five electric cars are seen passing at the entrance. Owned by Leonard Brothers, the vast river level parking lot, subway and cars are free to the public, making the project unique in the annals of downtown business and pleasure.

AMTRAK X995

ID# 53,486

AMTRAK X995

Swedish built electric locomotive arrived in July 1976 for extensive testing in the New York-Washington, D.C. corridor. Smaller and lighter than comparable locomotives, X995 has been successfully tested in mainline revenue service as well as controlled conditions such as high speed 125mph test. Shown in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 1976, the locomotive is expected to be returned to Sweden upon completion of all tests.

Photo by John C. Benson

SACRAMENTO NORTHERN 654

ID# 52,709

SACRAMENTO NORTHERN 654

Steeple cab electric 654 is framed in the Union Pacific's Station at Marysville, Calif. in April 1965 during the last month of operation.

Photo by John A. Kirchner

Pacific Electric Railway Locomotive #1624

ID# 52,114

New York Central & Hudson River Railroad #11

ID# 52,293

Amtrak Metroliner

ID# 51,607

Amtrak Locomotive #910 at Washington, D. C. on April 13, 1982

ID # 42,360

Amtrak Locomotive #905 at Washington, D. C. on April 13, 1982

ID # 42,361

Amtrak Locomotive #901 at New Haven, Connecticut on October 14, 1990

ID # 42,242

American Locomotive Company - Specification Card, Woodward Iron Co. #27

ID # 8,998

Milwaukee Road Locomotive Electric Locomotive E3

ID # 23,414

From Milwaukee Road News Bureau
C.M.St.P.& P. R.R. Co.

356 Union Station - Chicago, Ill.

QUEEN OF THE RAILS: - This giant electric locomotive, prominent in the "Wheels-A Ro1ling" pageant at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair, is owned and operated by the Milwaukee Road on its Chicago, Seattle-Tacoma route in the Cascade mountains in Washington.

The big engine weighs more than a half million pounds. It has 24 driving wheels. Through a process known as regenerative braking it creates electricity when descending grades.

Although a foremost user of Diesel power, the Milwaukee Road is America's longest overhead trolley electrified railroad.

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Joint Union Pacific Railroad and General Electric Company Press Release

ID # 23,471

For release after 7 p.m. (EST)
Saturday, April 29, 1950

Joint Release from
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
1416 Dodge Street, Omaha, Neb.
and General News Bureau (HLR)
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Schenectady 5, New York

The nation's first gas turbine-electric locomotive, a 4,5OO horsepower unit which the General Electric Company and the American Locomotive Company are testing on the Union Pacific, hauls a freight train near Sloan, Nev. The locomotive is back on U.P. freight runs after undergoing a thorough shop inspection following completion of its first year of operation.

In summarizing the unit s first year on the rails, G.W. Wilson, manager of General Electricts Locomotive and Car Equipment Divisions at Erie, Pa., declared that during the period the locomotive "performed successfully under alnost every conceivable operating condition." Wilson emphasized, however, that the developtiiental unit must undergo many more hours of rigid road tests before its future as a railroad prime mover can he determined.

Outwardly resembling a diesel-electric, its powerplant is a gas turbine similar in principle to those which power jet planes. There is no jet effect, or thrust, however, as in a plane. The turbine is connected through reduction gears to electric generators, which run electric motors, driving the wheels. The Alco-G-E unit has more than twice the horsepower of a diesei-electric of comparable size.

The caboose immediately to the rear provides working space for G-E engineers who observe performance and note operating data.

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Photo # NB11432
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General Electric Company Press Release on Union Pacific Railroad Ordered

ID # 23,472

For release after 7 PM EST

Wednesday, December 10, 1952

News Bureau (F. H. Gildner)

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Schenectady 5, New York

MORE POWER TO UNION PACIFIC -- The Union Pacific Railroad has just ordered another 15 of these 45OO-horsepower giants the gas turbine electric locomotive -- from the General Electric Company. This newest form of motive power for the railroads packs the greatest horsepower per foot of length of any internally-powered locomotive ever built. With its 83 feet, this unit provides practically 54 horsepower per foot or the equivalent of three diesel-electric units measuring some 150 feet. The Union Pacific, which already has in operation six gas turbine electrics of a previous order of ten, uses these locomotives on the main line between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyo.

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