Electric Locomotives
The Milwaukee was one of the most electrified railroads in the United States. The system used was 3,000 volt DC overhead line.
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Famous quotes containing the words electric and/or locomotives:
“That’s the down-town frieze,
Principally the church steeple,
A black line beside a white line;
And the stack of the electric plant,
A black line drawn on flat air.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)