End of Service for VGN EL-2B Streamliners

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Sun Oct 21 12:27:12 EDT 2012


Stewart:

You're thinking of what Vgn called the EL-C. The EL-2b's were the
two-unit (back to back) "streamliners." They had 25 Hz to DC motor-generator sets
to feed DC to their traction motors.

The rectifiers went straight from N&W to the New Haven in the summer of
1963, NH arranged for a service engineer from the GE New York office to come
to New Haven and check them out. As it happened, that summer was when I
was doing my three-month field assignment as part of my 21-month rotating
training assignments for what was then the Locomotive and Car Equipment
Department of GE, and I had been assigned to the NY Office for that assignment
(which was very convenient because we were living on Long Island at the
time). I was invited to come along for the inspection, which was a great
experience. The New Haven folks remarked that "GE had learned a lot about
packaging the rectifier equipment since the EP-5's."

Dave Phelps


In a message dated 10/21/2012 9:11:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Hi Group, please forgive the ignorance of a Yankee member.- Were the VGN
EL-2b's, the "hood style" rectifier locomotives delivered by General
Electric to the VGN? If so, some of them came to the New Haven Railroad, probably
in the 1960's and probably by way of General Electric-Erie Works. They
passed from the New Haven into Penn Central then into Conrail. I'm a member
of the Railroad Museum of New England and the museum owns one of the units
in very faded Conrail blue and minus it's main transformer due to it's
concentration of PCB's in the transformer oil. It will never run again, there's
no main transformer and the 20 mile Naugatuck Railroad subsidiary of the
museum has absolutely no centenary.
Stewart Fritts

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Sorry I can't answer all your inquiries about the EL2b's. I do have a
note, of which I do not remember the source, that says the EL2b's were scrapped
at the Peck Iron
& Metal Co. in south Richmond. Maybe this will jog someone's memory with
the details.

Jeff Sanders






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I've seen several accounts of the end of the EL-2Bs which say they were
taken out of service and scrapped between 1959 and 1962. The early date is
clearly incorrect as McClure and Plant show several pictures in their book
of these motors in service into at least Oct. 1960. Can anyone clear up the
history of the final days of the EL-2Bs? When were they actually taken
out of service? Were they stored for a while before disposal? Were they
sent back to General Electric or were they scrapped by some local company?
If so, who, when and where? Many thanks for your help.

Tom
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