Yakima Valley Transportation Company Electric Locomotive #297
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brwhiz
N 33° 45.595 W 117° 13.918
11S E 478518 N 3735560
This electric locomotive is housed in Car House No. 2 (Pacific Electric Collection) at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris.
Waymark Code: WMJKDN
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2013
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This electric locomotive, built in August if 1923 by Baldwin-Westinghouse as locomotive number 56937, started operating pulling freight on the Glendale & Montrose Railway in the suburbs of Los Angeles. After the G&M went out of business in 1930, the Union Pacific continued to use it for freight service on a portion of the former G&M line. In 1938, the locomotive was sold to the Yakima Valley Transportation Company for use in the apple-growing region of Washington state.
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