The LC-1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Norfolk and Western Railway. Twelve twin-unit machines were delivered in 1914 and 1915 for the electrification of the Elkhorn grade in the Bluefield Division, where steam trains were slowed to a crawl in the Elkhorn Tunnel. Each pair weighed 270 to 300 short tons and was about 105 feet long, which made it the largest and heaviest electric locomotive in the United States when it appeared. It drew single-phase 11 kV alternating current from overhead wire and converted it aboard to three-phase power. Electric operation raised traffic by about sixty percent, but the new Elkhorn tunnel of 1950 ended the need for it and all of the LC-1s were scrapped.
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The N&W LC-1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
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The N&W LC-1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
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The combined locomotive weighed 270–300 short tons (240–270 t) and was 105 feet 8 inches (32.21 m) long, making it both the largest and heaviest electric locomotive in the United States at the time of its introduction.
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Baldwin-Westinghouse delivered 12 twin-unit boxcabs in 1914-1915.
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The N&W LC-1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
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N&W scrapped them in 1950 when it discontinued electric operations.
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The N&W LC-1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
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The combined locomotive weighed 270-300 short tons (240-270 t) and was 105 feet 8 inches (32.21 m) long, making it both the largest and heaviest electric locomotive in the United States at the time of its introduction.
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The N&W LC-1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
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The N&W LC-1 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the Norfolk and Western Railway.
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