File:New electric locomotive near Cascade Tunnel, May 7, 1927 (MOHAI 6448).jpg

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English: New electric locomotive near Cascade Tunnel, May 7, 1927   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Pickett Photo Co.
Title
English: New electric locomotive near Cascade Tunnel, May 7, 1927
Description
English:

In 1909, the Great Northern Railway Company began using electric engines to pull trains and their steam locomotives through the Cascade Tunnel in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Smoke from the coal-fired steam engines had nearly killed 100 people in the tunnel in 1903. On the steep downhill runs, the electric engines actually generated power which went back into the system. This May 1927 photo shows a new Great Northern electric engine, here called a motor, near the Cascade Tunnel at Stevens Pass, Washington. The extensions on top of the locomotive, called pantographs, connect it with the electric lines running above.

Original title: New G.N. motor at Cascade Tunnel.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.); Electric railroads; Passes (Landforms); Railroad employees; Railroad locomotives; Railroad tracks; Tunnels
Depicted place
English: Stevens Pass (Wash.)
Date Taken on 7 May 1927
Medium
English: 1 photographic print: gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 25 cm (9.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
6448
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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