GE E60

The GE E60 is a family of six-axle, 6,000 horsepower C-C electric locomotives made by GE Transportation Systems between 1972 and 1983 in several freight and passenger variants for the United States and Mexico. GE designed it for the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad, a coal-hauling route in Arizona that began operating in 1973, and adapted it that year for high-speed passenger service on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. The largest customer was the Mexican national railways, which bought 39. The E60s worked well hauling coal and remain in use on several mining railroads in the western United States, but derailments above 90 miles per hour ended the passenger role and Amtrak chose the EMD AEM-7.