End of Service for VGN EL-2B Streamliners

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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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