Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named ...
class E2b comprised six experimental
B-B electric locomotive
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives with on-board fuelled prime movers, such as diesel engines or gas ...
s built for the railroad by
General Electric
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.
In 1952 the Pennsylvania Railroad took delivery of eight experimental locomotives:
* 4 locomotives of the class E2b with the road numbers #4939–#4942 built by General Electric
* 2 locomotives of the class
E3c with the road numbers #4995 and #4996 built by
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton &
Westinghouse
* 2 locomotives of the class
E3b the road numbers #4997 and #4998 built by
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton &
Westinghouse
GE built two demonstrators to show the
Great Northern Railway. These two were sold to the PRR in March 1953 and numbered .
The class E2b locomotives were commonly used in three pairs. Like most previous PRR electric locomotives, they were straight
AC-powered, and did not use
rectifier
A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC), which periodically reverses direction, to direct current (DC), which flows in only one direction. The reverse operation (converting DC to AC) is performed by an Power ...
s. Because of this, they could
work in multiple with existing PRR locomotives, and generally did so with class
P5a.
The locomotives were
scrap
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ped in 1964.
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11 kV AC locomotives
E2b
General Electric locomotives
B-B locomotives
Experimental locomotives
Electric locomotives of the United States
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1952
Scrapped locomotives
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Streamlined electric locomotives