POWERFUL LOCOMOTIVES
ELECTRIC PROPULSION u.s.a. Company’s enterprise (Received 9 a.m.) lj NEW YORK, November 10. The Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Railroad Company today announced that it had placed orders for 57 streamline electric engines, “to be the most powerful electric passenger locomotive ever built in the world.” This is one of the largest locomotive equipment orders in the history of the United States railroads, and involves an expenditure of 15,000,000 dollars (£3,000,000 at par). The engines will be designed for an operating speed of 90 miles per hour. They will haul trains of standard size and length.
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Northern Advocate, 12 November 1934, Page 6
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