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Great Northern Y-1
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1927· class of American electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Great Northern electric locomotive Y-1 1927: General Electric Publicity Department (see lower left photo front for logo).· Public domain
- 2. Great Northern electric locomotive Y-1 1928: General Electric Publicity Department (see lower left photo front for logo). The photographer was Lee Pickett , who was at one point the official Great Northern Railway photographer.· Public domain
what is it?
The Great Northern Railway's class Y-1 comprised eight electric locomotives with AAR 1-C+C-1 wheel arrangements. The locomotives were used on the 73-mile (117 km) electrified portion of the railroad, from Wenatchee, Washington to Skykomish, Washington, including the Cascade Tunnel. The 3,000 horsepower (2.2 MW) locomotives were built at Schenectady, New York, with car bodies manufactured by American Locomotive Company and electrical components supplied by General Electric.
who runs it
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
- First built 99 years ago, in 1927.
- 2.5 MW is about 29 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 39 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 39 years (1927–1966).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1927–1930
- in service from
- 1927
- retired
- 1966
- status
- retired
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, General Electric
- operators
- Great Northern Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad
- top speed
- 89 km/h
- power
- 2.5 MW
- electric system
- 11 kV AC, 25 Hz overhead
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-0+0-6-2
- weight
- 235 t
- nicknames
- Stingers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1393539, Wikipedia: Great Northern Y-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.