LION cannot build models like this nor can he aford them, ergo they are not on the layout of the LION
Electrics are cool.
It should be noted that “the Milwaukee Road’s boxcab electric, somewhat more modern units than those above…” that was illustrated was actually a “Little Joe.” The MILW did have boxcabs, but the Little Joes were locos originally built for the USSR, but which never were exported after relations soured at the beginning of the Cold War. They were converted to standard gauge and served on the MILW and on the South Shore.
I enjoy modeling HEAVY electrics on my layout. My native Cleveland, Ohio was home to 22 big 2-C+C-2 motors. These were built to the same wheel arrangement of the Pennsy GG1s but several years earlier (1928)
They lasted in Cleveland until 1952 when they were rewired from 3,000 volts into 600 V. third rail and then used from Harmon, NY to Grand Central. Fortunately, I rode behind them on several occasions in the 1970s and '80s. All were scrapped by 1984.
I have a couple GE E-33s that were built for the Virginian and later sold in 1962 to the New Haven.
ALL of the motors in the above scene are now history! The last run for the Amtrak AEM-7 was in June of this year.
When is an electric not an electric? These FL-9s are dual-powered so the diesel prime mover can be shut down and the locomotive powered by collecting 660 volts on the third rail.
Last but not least are these venerable S class motors built beginning in 1904.
Toward the end of their service they were used to ferry equipment, including the Twentieth Century Limited, from Mott Haven yard into grand Central.
Wait a minute! Isn’t the wildebeest juicy?? [dinner]
Rich
I’ve never been much of a juice freak, probably because I didn’t grow up with it. But I was in Strasburg PA last week & enjoyed seeing PRR’s DD1’s, B1 “rat” switcher, and 2 GG1’s, as well some as more modern big electrics. Can’t help being impressed.
My favorite:
6,000 HP
Great pictures.
Why is it that a lot of the electrics look like the cab was an after thought? They look like the cab was just stuck on the top of everything. Are the electrics underneath that big?
The Virginian EL-2Bs were 6800 horsepower and were the first loco I remember being on. It was at Elmore, WV and I was a few months short of turning four years old. I was on a Virginian rectifier, EL-C, before I was six months old. My Dad was a VGN/N&W brakeman/conductor and would take me along to the yard office to check when he would be called for work or just to hang out.