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| Title | Electric locomotive at Skykomish, Washington, ca. 1955 |
| Photographer | Wood, Charles R. |
| Date | ca. 1955 |
| Caption | In 1909, the Great Northern Railway Company began using electric engines to pull trains and their steam locomotives through the Cascade Tunnel in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Smoke from the coal-fired steam engines had nearly killed 100 people in the tunnel in 1903. On the steep downhill runs, the electric engines actually generated power which went back into the system.
This 1950s photo shows one of the Great Northern Railway's electric engines at the Skykomish station. The extensions on top of the locomotive, called pantographs, connect it with the electric lines running above. |
| Subjects | Electric railroads; Railroad locomotives; Railroad stations; Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) |
| Places | Skykomish (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1981.7265.1 |
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| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: gelatin, b&w; 13 x 20 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original photograph using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
