The Great Northern Railway’s class W-1 comprised two electric locomotives with AAR B-D+D-B wheel arrangements. The locomotives were used on the 73-mile (117 km) electrified portion of the railroad from Wenatchee Washington to Skykomish Washington including the Cascade Tunnel.The 5000 horsepower (3.7 MW) W-1 motor-generator locomotives were built at General Electric’s Erie works in 1947.
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