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unusual facts about electric locomotive


Gas turbine-electric locomotive

Bombardier Ltd, at the Plattsburg, N.Y. plant where the Acela was produced, developed a prototype (JetTrain) which combined a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 gas turbine and a diesel engine with a single gearbox powering four traction motors identical to those in Acela.


1953 Pennsylvania Railroad train wreck

When the train arrived in New Haven, PRR GG1 No. 4876, an electric locomotive, was coupled on, along with several passenger cars from Springfield.

EP10

The EP10 (ЭП10) is a type of dual voltage six axle electric locomotive built for RZD by NEVZ in association with Adtranz/Bombardier for passenger use.

Railway electrification in the Soviet Union

The original fleet of eight electric locomotives was imported from the United States and were made by General Electric (GE).

Venedikt Yerofeyev

It is an account of a journey from Moscow to Petushki (Vladimir Oblast) by electric train, one of many futile attempts to visit his small daughter: each time such a journey becomes soaked in alcohol and fails.


see also

ABB ALP-44

The ALP-44 based on the Rc6 model and designed specifically for New Jersey Transit as a variant of the EMD AEM-7 electric locomotive in use by Amtrak, MARC, and SEPTA.

André Chapelon

Chapelon's work lived on in the work of his friend and protégé Livio Dante Porta of Argentina, and others, and he was accorded the rare honour for a foreign railwayman of having a British Rail Class 86 electric locomotive named for him.

Duffield railway station

The line saw several historic moments, with new or experimental vehicles from Derby being tested on the line, such as "Number 10000", the first mainline LMS diesel-electric locomotive, which was tested on the line in late 1947.

E5000

British Rail Class 71, a British electric locomotive class numbered in the E5000 series

GE 57-ton gas-electric boxcab

After the Dan Patch Line went into bankruptcy, its sisters went to a California traction company while 100 was sold first to the Central Warehouse Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1917, who converted it to a simple electric locomotive.

Kim Chŏng-tae Electric Locomotive Works

The Kim Chŏng-tae Electric Locomotive Works in P'yŏngyang is North Korea's primary—possibly only—manufacturer of railway motive power.

New South Wales U set

The first appearance took place on 22 June 1957 when they were hauled by electric locomotive 4612 as part of the first train to travel on the newly-electrified Blue Mountains line.

PRR 1737

When the famous electric locomotive, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1, would bring the trains from New York City's Penn Station, the K4s would take over the train and make the run from the South Amboy station to Bay Head, New Jersey.