Electric Locomotives"Prodded partly by concerns over pollution, the Baltimore & Ohio in 1895 electrified a portion of its mainline through (and beneath) its namesake city. Realizing the advantages of electric power versus steam, other railways - including the Pennsylvania, New Haven, New York Central, Norfolk & Western, Virginian, Great Northern and Milwaukee Road - eventually followed suit. The history of electric interurban locomotives in the United States begins with their nineteenth-century roots and continues to today ... Featured, among others, are venerable S- and P- motors; GE's Little Joes; the iconic streamlined GG1, Milwaukee Road Bi-Polars; the Swedish designed AEM-7; and Amtrak's Acela Express. Finally, author Brian Solomon also discusses the roles played by GE, Westinghouse, locomotive builders, and the railroads themselves - touchstone events like the Grand Central electrification and the Milwaukee's Pacific Extension, specialized equipment and technologies, and how electric locomotives laid the groundwork for diesel-electric locomotives prior to World war II"--Back cover. |
