Surviving Electric Locomotives

For purposes of this site the surviving electric locomotives listed here were built during the 1960s and before. Unfortunately, because electrics use an expensive and special power source (overhead wires or third-running rail) to be operated, virtually none of the classic models, which survive, remain in any kind of operational status. In any event, thankfully many of the most famous motors have been preserved in some fashion such as Pennsylvania GG1s or Milwaukee Road Little Joes. This list will be categorized by those railroads that owned electrics and which, and how many, survive. One final note, the locomotives listed below are those which served in main line freight service and does not include trolley or interurban cars.

Class 2-D+D-2 "Little Joe": On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Class B #1565: Operable at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Class EF-1 Boxcab #50: Stored indoors and cosmetically restored at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota.

Class EP-2 Bi-Polar E-2: E-2 is the last surviving Bi-Polar on static display at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.

Class EP-4 Little Joe #70: Last surviving of its kind on static display in Deer Lodge, Montana.

Class S-1 #100: NYC’s first S-motor remains preserved but is not publicly displayed.

Class S-2 #115: On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Class B1: At least one B1 survives indoors and cosmetically restored at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

Class E44: At least one E44 survives indoors and cosmetically restored at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.

Class GG1: Along with Old Rivets surviving GG1s include (per their original PRR numbers) 4859, 4876, 4877, 4879, 4882, 4890, 4903, 4909, 4913, 4917-4919, 4927, 4933, and 4935.

Class EL-C/E33: At least one E-LC/E33, #133, survives at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke.

Commonwealth Edison #4, "Steeple Cab": On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Cornwall Street Railway & Light Company #14, Class B-1: On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Iowa Terminal Railroad #30, "Steeple Cab": On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Hutchinson & Northern #1: A small steeple-cab design built in 1921 by General Electric and remains preserved and operational at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.

Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company #L13, "Steeple Cab": On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company #L10, "Steeple Cab": On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Sacramento Northern #653: A small steeple-cab design built in 1928 by General Electric and remains preserved and operational at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.

Sacramento Northern #654: A small steeple-cab design built in 1928 by General Electric and remains preserved and operational at the Western Railway Museum.

Union Pacific E-100: Originally Glendale and Montrose Railway #22, later sold to Yakima Valley Transportation and renumbered 297, which was purchased by Union Pacific. It is preserved and in operation at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.

Wisconsin Electric Power Company #L4, "Steeple Cab": On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Wisconsin Electric Power Company #L7, "Steeple Cab": On display at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Yakima Valley Transportation #297: Originally built by Baldwin-Westinghouse this B+B design remains preserved in its YVT colors and is operational.

The Illinois Railway Museum also is home to a large collection of interurban passenger and freight equipment, more information about which can be found by clicking here.

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