Hutchinson & Northern Steeplecab Electric Locomotive No. 1
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N 33° 45.601 W 117° 13.920
11S E 478515 N 3735571
This electric locomotive is housed in Car House No. 2 (Pacific Electric Collection) at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris.
Waymark Code: WMJKDR
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2013
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From the museum web page:
Hutchinson & Northern No. 1 is an electric locomotive designed for pulling short freight trains. It was built in 1921 by General Electric as a “demonstrator” locomotive. To encourage purchase of GE locomotives, it was shipped to prospective customers so they could take a “test drive”. Its use a demonstrator probably explains the extra-large GE logo on the side of the cab.
In 1923, No. 1 was sold to the Hutchinson & Northern Railway, and operated there for 47 years. The H&N was a two-mile railway near Wichita, Kansas, built to connect a local salt mine with the Missouri Pacific interchange in Hutchinson. The H&N finally replaced their electric locomotives with Diesels in 1970, and donated number 1 to the Museum.
Number 1 is known as a “steeple cab” locomotive, so named because of the sloping ends and the cab that sticks up in the middle. It is considered to be a light-duty locomotive; in good weather it was capable of pulling only about ten of the relatively small freight cars of the time.
No. 1 was repainted into a Bicentennial livery in honor of the Nation's 200th birthday, but has since been returned to the orange livery it wore when it arrived in Perris.
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