The Norfolk and Western Railway was about to put in use a number of electric locomotives built by the Westinghouse Company for use in hauling 3200 ton coal trains over a mountain division in West Virginia having 2 per cent grades. These locomotives were the largest and most powerful ever built, the double units having a total tractive force of 170,000 pounds. They were designed with split pliase induction motors for alternating current supplied from an overhead conductor. at 11,000 volts.
From a 1915 book, in the public domain
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N&W 120-ton coal car