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S. Berliner, III
Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing
"changing materials with high-intensity sound"

[consultation is on a fee basis]

Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher

- The vast bulk of my massive Web presence (over 485 pages) had been hosted by AT&T's WorldNet service since 30 May 1996; they dropped WorldNet effective 31 Mar 2010 and I have been scrambling to transfer everything. Everything's saved but all the links have to be changed, mostly by hand. See my sbiii.com Transfer Page for any updates on this tedious process.

S. Berliner, III's

sbiii.com

Electric Railroads Page

INDEX:

On this Electric Railroads page:
GE E10b Electric Switcher.

See the main Railroads page for other indexing.

On other pages:

ALCO-GE-IR Boxcabs (and others),
see the Boxcabs Index Page for details of the many (over 55) pages on boxcabs alone!

S. Berliner, III's Pennsylvania Railroad Page, et seq.

Railroads You can Model.

Schnabel and other Giant RR Cars, et seq.

Long Island Rail Road (and LI Rail Roads).

Great Northern/Western Fruit Express (WFEX) Reefers

MODEL RAILROADING
plus Z-Scale (1:220) Model Railroading (and smaller!).

Juice-jackers (electric fans) {I really wrote that?} take heart, while not my favorite type of loco, they appear abundantly on my Odd Boxcabs page (of all places!) and scattered elsewhere throughout my RR and MRR pages; note also the D½, not only on my PRR page but also half-way down the main RR page, and the DD3 on my Berlinerwerke Apocrypha page.

While electric railroading is not one of my primary interests, I have enough interest, especially about electric locomotives, and, even more so, about Boxcab Electric Locomotives, et seq., that I keep running across non-boxcab electric locomotives of such great interest to me that I decided to create this page about them.

What kicked me off on this new page was a class drawing and spec sheet for Metro North Railroad's (MNR's) GE E10b 126-ton electric switcher for use in Grand Central Terminal:

(image courtesy of a RR friend)

They were numbered 401 through 403 and were built in May 1952 under builder's numbers 31136, 31138, and 31139 (wonder what was 31137?), as shown on the spec sheet:

(image courtesy of a RR friend)

[For a boxcab version, see Berlinerwerke Apocrypha page 18, but keep your tongue firmly in your cheek!]

Many U.S. railroads were heavily electrified, using early boxcab electric locos, such as the B&O but most notably the Pennsylvania, New York Central, and New Haven (which still are - as the successor N. E. Corridor) and the Great Northern (now dieselized as part of BNSF). To my mind, few electric locos top the PRR's FF1 Big Liz, DD1, and GG1 and the GN's gigantic GE B-D-D-B W-1. For starters, here's the Pennsy's 1917 FF1, Big Liz, a 2-C+C-2 which was so powerfuil it yanked out drawbars all over the road: new (16 Aug 2011)

(photos from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #15)
[Thumbnail images; click on picture for even larger images!]

This was the GN Y1 2-C+C-2 electric boxcab from GN's Cascade Mountain service for

(photo from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #15)
[Thumbnail image; click on picture for an even larger image!]

The Pennsy bought seven of 'em, rebult six as class FF2, and used them for drag-speed pusher service.

And just so you see what else I'm talking about, here's the GN W-1:

GN W-1 5018 and 5019 (l.) and 5019 (r.) at Skykomish, WA
(left photo by Montague Powell from the collection of Joe Shine /
right photo by Stan Kistler from Vanishing Vistas postcard

Here is an old (ca. 1940) picture of a Milwaukee (CM&StP) Class EF-3 #E28 2-B-B+B-B+B-B-2 string:

(photo from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #15)
[Thumbnail image; click on picture for very much larger image!]

and the gigantic Virginian 642-ton 3(1-D-1) #100 set:

(photo from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #15)
[Thumbnail image; click on picture for even larger image!]

[Train Shed images have to be restored]

What monsters, all!

Other very-heavy electric users included the N&W; see the boxcab electric locos page, et seq.

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[Much more on electric locomotives to follow.]

Steam lovers, see my Science and Technology page! Ah, the power of steam!

There is an incredible simulation program by Charlie Dockstadter on steam valve gear available on the Alaska Live Steamers VALVE GEAR ON THE COMPUTER page.

You may wish to visit the Railroad Continuation Page, et seq.

of this series of Railroad pages.

LEGACY

What happens to all this when I DIE or (heaven forfend!) lose interest? See LEGACY.

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