Milwaukee Road class EP-3

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Milwaukee Road class EP-3
Type and origin Power type Electric Builder Baldwin Locomotive Works / Westinghouse Build date 1919 Total produced 10
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 4-6-2+2-6-4OE  • AAR 2-C-1+1-C-2  • UIC (2′Co1′)(1′Co2′) Gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Leading dia. 36 in (914 mm) Driver dia. 68 in (1,727 mm) Trailing dia. 36 in (914 mm) Wheelbase 79 ft 10 in (24.33 m) Length 88 ft 7 in (27.00 m) Height 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) Electric system/s Overhead line, 3,000 V DC Current pickup(s) Two roof-mounted pantographs Transmission Gearing and quill drive Train heating Steam generator
Performance figures Maximum speed 65 mph (105 km/h) Power output Continuous: 3,396 hp (2,532 kW); One hour: 4,680 hp (3,490 kW) Tractive effort 105,000 lbf (467 kN)
Career Operators Milwaukee Road Numbers 10300–10309; renumbered E10–E19 in 1939 First run 1919 Disposition All scrapped by 1957

The Milwaukee Road's class EP-3 comprised ten electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse. They were nicknamed Quills because of their use of a quill drive. Although they were good haulers and well liked by engineers, poor design and constant mechanical problems plagued them for their entire lives and they were among the first of the Milwaukee Road's electric locomotives to be retired.