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Milwaukee Road class EP-3
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1919· class of 10 American electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MILW Quill: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
what is it?
The Milwaukee Road's class EP-3 comprised ten electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse. They were nicknamed Quills because of their use of a quill drive. Although they were good haulers and well liked by engineers, poor design and constant mechanical problems plagued them for their entire lives and they were among the first of the Milwaukee Road's electric locomotives to be retired.
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 107 years ago, in 1919.
- 3.5 MW is about 41 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 26.8 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 38 years (1919–1957).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1919
- in service from
- 1919
- retired
- 1957
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- operators
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- 3.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2+2-6-4
- length
- 26.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1881504, Wikipedia: Milwaukee Road class EP-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.