Milwaukee Road class ES-1 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Milwaukee Road's class ES-1 comprised a single electric

Electric locomotive

An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or an on-board energy storage device...

switcher

Switcher

A switcher or shunter is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been...

locomotive

Locomotive

A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...

built in 1915

1915 in rail transport

-January events:* January 1 – The Ilford rail crash in England kills 10.* January 15 – The final spike is driven on the transcontinental Canadian Northern Railway at Basque, British Columbia.-March events:...

. It was designed to run on the unique 1,500 V DC

Direct current

Direct current is the unidirectional flow of electric charge. Direct current is produced by such sources as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type. Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through...

electrification in the yard at Great Falls, Montana

Great Falls, Montana

Great Falls is a city in and the county seat of Cascade County, Montana, United States. The population was 58,505 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Great Falls, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Cascade County...

. It was originally numbered #10000 and was numbered E85 in March 1939. It was retired in November 1939.

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