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Altoona Works BP4
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Altoona Works· class of 1 American battery-electric locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NS 999 in Roanoke East End Shops, May 2017: Mark Levisay from Ruckersville, VA, USA· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Altoona Works BP4 is a 1,500 hp (1,120 kW) B-B battery-electric locomotive rebuilt by the Altoona Works of the Norfolk Southern Railway. It was created in 2007 by replacing the diesel prime mover of an EMD GP38 (Norfolk Southern #2911, formerly Conrail #7732) with 1,080 12-volt lead-acid batteries and associated control equipment. The converted locomotive was redesignated Norfolk Southern #999.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- Battery-electric
- traction
- battery
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Altoona Works
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4736955, Wikipedia: Altoona Works BP4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.