Preserved First Generation Electric Locomotives

[daveklepper]

"AMY" at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven and Branford Connecticut is the oldest North American electric freight locomotive preserved, but it was used on basically a streetcar line with special small freight cars, not regular railroad equpment.  It is about 115 year old.

Was any NYC S-1 preserved?   What about a B&O electric?

[Simon Reed]

Dave - I'm fairly sure that there's a B&O "Tunnel" electric at the B&O Museum, Baltimore.

I'm at work so can't do too much research, and I've not been to the B&O Museum for 8 years but I recall being hugely impressed.

How old? Presumably 1896 which I think was when the tunnel opened.  

[dealemeout]

Sorry, but the B&O Tunnel Electrics were all scrapped.  The electrified Howard Street Tunnel which was their reason for being was switched over to all diesel in 1952.  There was an effort to save one of the original locomotives built in 1895 or 1896 but it ultimately failed.  What is at the B&O Museum is the #10.  It's a trolley pole locomotive that was used to switch cars in Baltimore. 

[nanaimo73]

5 of CN's WWI electrics have been saved, including 6714 at the Shore Line Trolley Museum.

[cbq9911a]

The Illinois Railway Museum has Penn Central (ex NYC) S-1 4715 and Commonwealth Edison steeple cab #4.

[cnwfan51]

    The Boone and scenic Valley has a couple of ex Kennecutt   Copper Steeple cabs here in Boone

[daveklepper]

Thanks for the information.   I knew about the CN electric at Branford, actually owned by one of CN's subsidiary interurbans and last used to switch freight at Oshawa.  I am extremely glad an S-1 has been saved and is at Union.  Not saving one of the orginal B&O tunnel motors was most unfortunate.

[Anonymous]

A set of Pennsy DD1s is preserved at the PA RR Museum at Strasburg, also a B1 electric switcher.  The St Louis Transportation Museum has an Italian or Swiss 3-phase steeplecab--don't know how old it is but that info may be on the museum's website.

[espeefoamer]

The St Louis Transportation Museum has a Milwaukee Road Bi Polar.

[martin.knoepfel]

The NYC used electrics to do shunting in Grand Central Terminal. Does Metro-North the shunting there with diesels, since the electrics have been retired?

[coborn35]

We have a Milwaukee Road boxcab.