Last Electric Locomotive - Harlowton MT
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PeterNoG
N 46° 26.203 W 109° 50.045
12T E 589566 N 5143231
This locomotive is the Milwaukee Road's last electric locomotive. It's on display in a small park on US Hwy 12 at Central Ave N in Harlowton Montana.
Waymark Code: WM551A
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 11/11/2008
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E57B The Last Electric Locomotive
The Milwaukee Road 656 mile electrified railroad ended at 11:40 PM June 15, 1974 when Engineer Art Morang stopped the E57B and E34C on the Harlowton roundhouse track. They were the last operating locomotives of the original 84 locomotives built by General Electric in 1915.
The electric locomotive roster had totaled 116 locomotives of 5 different types operating from Harlowton, MT 440 miles to Avery, Idaho and 216 miles from Othello Wash. to Tacoma Wash. over 5 mountain ranges.
The E57B is 57'8¾" long, 16'8" high (panagraph down), 10'0" wide and weighs 144 tons. Rated at 1500 h.p., it could develop 2395 h.p. starting effort at 62% overload. Operated in 1 to 4 unit consists, they were very trouble free locomotives. The 3000 volt D.C. trolley restricted them to a small portion of the 11,248 mile railroad and they were replaced by the more versatile diesel electric locomotives.