Portal:US Railways/Did you know/December 2007

December 2007

• ...that because the United States Railroad Administration dictated that Milwaukee Road's 1917 order for electrical equipment be split between GE and Westinghouse, the EP-2s were built by GE and the EP-3s were built by Westinghouse?
  

• ...that the Southern Railway bought the original Norfolk Southern Railway and merged the Carolina and Northwestern Railway into it, then brought back the Carolina and Northwestern name in 1981 to free up the Norfolk Southern name for the planned 1982 merger of the Southern Railway with the Norfolk and Western Railway?
  

• ...that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad created the fictional character Phoebe Snow to advertise the railroad's passenger train services stressing how much cleaner rides on their trains were since the company used anthracite coal?
  

• ...that Santa Fe Railroad operated the first San Diegan passenger train service on March 27, 1938, using only one set of equipment making two round trips each way between Los Angeles and San Diego, California?
  

• ...that Erie Railroad's L-1 class of 0-8-8-0 steam locomotives were the only articulated camelback locomotives ever built?
  

• ...that the entire production run of the EMD E5 diesel-electric locomotive model was built exclusively for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and that one has been preserved in operating condition at Illinois Railway Museum?
  

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