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In the mid-1920s the Virginian Railway had adopted an 11 kV 25 Hz AC electrification for its coal-heavy main line between Mullens, West Virginia and Roanoke, Virginia.To work this line the Virginian bought 36 EL-3A boxcab locomotives from Westinghouse. [1]
Pages in category "Virginian Railway locomotives" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Virginian EL-3A; Virginian EL-C; X. 2-8-8-8-4
Virginian Railway EL-3A: Virginian Railway: 100-109 ALCO + Westinghouse: 1925-1926 Electric 1-D-1+1-D-1+1-D-1 624 tonnes (688 short tons) 1,234 kilonewtons (277,500 lbf) 5,313 kilowatts (7,125 hp) (1-hour rating); 4,474 kilowatts (6,000 hp) continuous 152.25 feet (46 m) overall length. ВЛ85: Russian Railways: 270 Novocherkassk Electric ...
Former Virginian Railway locomotives (acquired 1959) EL-3A: 1-D-1: 100ABC to 111ABC: Alco & Westinghouse: 1925–1926: 36: 0: 1962: ... ex Virginian Railway ...
Virginian 4, the last surviving steam engine of the Virginian Railway, on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia.. Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ...
Pages in category "Railway locomotives introduced in 1925" ... Virginian EL-3A This page was last edited on 6 May 2019, at 00:03 (UTC). Text is ...
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The EL-2B locomotives were built at General Electric's Erie works in 1948. Numbered 125–128, they were the largest two-unit electric locomotives used in North America. The locomotives were retired and sold for scrap shortly after the 1959 merger of the Virginian with the Norfolk and Western Railway. None of the 4 examples built have survived.