GE 57-ton gas–electric boxcab

what is it?

Before diesel engines had been developed for locomotive power in the 1920s and 1930s, many companies chose to use the gasoline engine for rail motive power. The first GE Locomotive was a series of four-axle (B-B) boxcab gasoline–electric machines closely related to the "doodlebugs", self-propelled passenger cars built in the early Twentieth Century. One of their first major customers was the Minneapolis, St.

who runs it

base stats

• speed 82 km/htop speed
• built 1made in total

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 113 years ago, in 1913.
• 📏11 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• ⌛Served for 54 years (1913–1967).

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built

1913

in service from

1913

retired

1967

status

preserved

number built

1

kind

Gas–Electric

traction

diesel

origin

🇺🇸 United States

builders

General Electric

operators

Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway, Great Northern Railway

top speed

82 km/h

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

Bo'Bo'

length

11 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.