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Pennsylvania Railroad class O1
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Pennsylvania Railroad· from 1930· class of 8 American 2′B2′ electric locomotives
what is it?
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class O1 comprised eight experimental boxcab electric locomotives built in 1930 and 1931. They were built in preparation for the New York to Washington Electrification project. They had the wheel arrangement classified as 4-4-4 in the Whyte notation (UIC: 2'B2'; AAR: 2-B-2).
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 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.9 MW is about 22 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 31 years (1930–1961).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1930–1931
- in service from
- 1930
- retired
- 1961
- status
- retired
- number built
- 8
- kind
- electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Pennsylvania Railroad, Altoona Works
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- top speed
- 145 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- electric system
- 11 kV 25 Hz AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-4
- length
- 15.9 m
- weight
- 136 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7120502, Wikipedia: Pennsylvania Railroad class O1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.