Best (USA?) Electric Locomotive ever built

[Anonymous]

What means "best"?

Best hauler?
(sweden,1999) IORE - 7000 hp, 156500 lbs TE
(south africa,1975) Class 9f - 5460 hp, 100000 lbs TE

Fastest?
(france.1990) TGV Atlantique Power Head - 5900 hp, 320mph
(germany, 1903) AEG Test Cars - 1000 hp, 130 mph

Most Famous?
(usa, 1935) GG1 - 4850 hp, 100 mph, 70000 lbs TE
(switzland, 1919) Be 6/8 (The Crocodile) - 3650 hp, 40 mph, 41000 lbs TE
(germany, 1970) BR 103 - 8090 hp, 125 mph, 70500 lbs TE

[espeefoamer]

I've got to go with the GG1.This was a very fast passenger loco,which was later adapted to haul freight.They lasted almost 50 years.They are my favorite electric engine.

[Anonymous]

Its gotta be the GG1.With 5000hp, 70,700lbs of tractive effort, & the hit (cat stripe)
desing by Loewy, this locomotive was a sucess !

[daveklepper]

My vote is for the double-end streamlined New Haven EF-3

9000 HP short time rating, about half that continuosly

running gear a further development of the GG-1 4-6-6-4

Designed for 60 mph, often run at 70, occasionally clocked at 79. Some were boilder equipped for passenger service in and out of Penn Station (no dc capability for Grand Central)

There never was a freight train on the New Haven on the electrified lines that it could not handle singly, including up the Hell Gate Bridge grades. Although it was equipped for mu.

Was the equal of four GP-9's or two EF-4/E-33's (the ex-Virginians)