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New York Central S-Motor
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1904· series of classes of American Electric locomotives
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- 1. The Street railway journal (1904) (14739010736): Internet Archive Book Images· No restrictions
what is it?
S-Motor was the class designation given by the New York Central to its ALCO-GE built S-1, S-2, S-2a and S-3 electric locomotives. The S-Motors hold the distinction of being the world's first mass-produced main line electric locomotives with the prototype #6000 being constructed in 1904. The S-Motors would serve alone until the more powerful T-motors began to arrive in 1913, eventually displacing them from main line passenger duties.
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 122 years ago, in 1904.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1904–1909
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 47
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, General Electric
- operators
- New York Central Railroad
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 660 V DC third rail
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- length
- 11.9 m
- weight
- 103 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6956055, Wikipedia: New York Central S-Motor (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.