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The Virginian EL-C was a type of electric locomotive built for the Virginian Railway by General Electric in August 1955. They were the first successful production locomotives to use Ignitron (mercury arc) rectifier technology. Although they proved to be a very successful design no more EL-C’s were ever built due to the small number of railroads that had electrification and the advent of improved electric locomotive technology.

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active years end year
1955-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
active years start year
1955-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
builder
General Electric
number built
12

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