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S. Berliner, III's

Electric Railroads Page

Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing
"changing materials with high-intensity sound"
Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher

ELECTRIC RAILROADING

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Enter Keywords: On this Electric Railroads page:

(07 Aug 08)
GE E10b Electric Switcher.

(07 Aug 08)

See the main Railroads page for other indexing.

On other pages:

ALCO-GE-IR Boxcabs (and others),
see the Boxcabs Index Page for details of the many (over 55) pages on boxcabs alone!

S. Berliner, III's Pennsylvania Railroad Page, et seq.

Railroads You can Model.

Schnabel and other Giant RR Cars, et seq.

Long Island Rail Road (and LI Rail Roads).

Great Northern/Western Fruit Express (WFEX) Reefers

MODEL RAILROADING
plus Z-Scale (1:220) Model Railroading (and smaller!).

Juice-jackers (electric fans) {I really wrote that?} take heart, while not my favorite type of loco, they appear abundantly on my Odd Boxcabs page (of all places!) and scattered elsewhere throughout my RR and MRR pages; note also the D½, not only on my PRR page but also half-way down the main RR page, and the DD3 on my Berlinerwerke Apocrypha page.

While electric railroading is not one of my primary interests, I have enough interest, especially about electric locomotives, and, even more so, about Boxcab Electric Locomotives, et seq., that I keep running across non-boxcab electric locomotives of such great interest to me that I decided to create this page about them.

What kicked me off on this new page was a class drawing and spec sheet for Metro North Railroad's (MNR's) GE E10b 126-ton electric switcher for use in Grand Central Terminal:

(07 Aug 08)

(image courtesy of a RR friend)

They were numbered 401 through 403 and were built in May 1952 under builder's numbers 31136, 31138, and 31139 (wonder what was 31137?), as shown on the spec sheet: