#1769
Milwaukee Road class ES-2
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Electric· from 1916· locomotive class
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. MILW E80 Deer Lodge August 1971xRP - Flickr - drewj1946: Drew Jacksich from San Jose, CA, The Republic of California· CC BY 2.0
- 2. MILW ES-2: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
what is it?
The Milwaukee Road's class ES-2 comprised four electric switcher locomotives. Two were built in 1916 and the final two in 1919. They were of steeplecab design, with a single roof-mounted pantograph to access the Milwaukee's 3,000 V DC overhead line.
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 110 years ago, in 1916.
- 500 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 58 years (1916–1974).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1916–1919
- in service from
- 1916
- retired
- 1974
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Electric
- operators
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- 500 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 12.5 m
- weight
- 74.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q249051, Wikipedia: Milwaukee Road class ES-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.