Electric trains in the US?

[ddechamp71]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ndbprr

Muskingham in Ohio and Black Mesa and Lake Powell in Arizona haul coal to power plants.

And also the Deseret & Western, in Colorado or New Mexico, I don’t remember.

Dominique

[Anonymous]

There is (or was) an electrical line in northeast Texas that fed a power plant. I remember driving under it a few years ago. Do not know its name.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tatans
… Milwaukee or GN electrics through the Cascades, I remember seeing some big honkin’ orange electric locos in the mountains when we were on holidays in the U.S. back in the late 60’s or early 70’s ? ? ?(were these Milwaukee?? )

Tatans:

GN’s electrics were gone by that time-frame, so probably Milwaukie is correct.

Feel free to describe what you remember seeing – recollections like these always make interesting and enjoyable reading!

thanks.

[Anonymous]

Of course these electric trains in the US! 3 i can name off the bat is Cta Lines in Chicago, the [bow]Meta Electric[bow], and Amtrak has a electric line too!

[samfp1943]

QUOTE: Originally posted by wrwatkins

There is (or was) an electrical line in northeast Texas that fed a power plant. I remember driving under it a few years ago. Do not know its name.

I think this line is Texas Electric{?] it hauls from the lignite strip mines around Mt. Pleasant, Tx to a generating station soueast of Mt. Pleasant. It uses large GE electrics [and some that came out of Mexico]. The strip pits straddle I-30 west of Mt. Pleasant area and are quite a sight, or used to be… Sorry to be so foggy on the details, maybe someone else can fill in…
Thanks,
Sam

[ajmiller]

Here’s a nice site with some info on the Black Mesa & Lake Powell in Arizona.

http://www.trainweb.org/southwestshorts/bmlp.html

[ajmiller]

The same site also has pages for electric railroads in Texas:

http://www.trainweb.org/southwestshorts/txumartinlake.html

http://www.trainweb.org/southwestshorts/txumonticello.html

[Bob-Fryml]

“Gluefinger” may be right. Three years ago the folks at East Troy told me that they still maintain a carload interchange agreement with the CN/WC, but unfortunately they didn’t have any customers at that time. Yet, East Troy did maintain an electric motor for handling carload freight.

About 10-years ago the folks at RELIC in South Elgin, Ill. told me a similar story. They were still setup for carload interchange with the Chicago, Central and Pacific, but they too didn’t have any on-line customers. They had a team track of sorts close to where their line reaches Illinois highway 31, so perhaps they could have entertained some rail-to-truck transfer business. I doubt it would have paid much.