The locomotive and tender are 108 feet long, and weigh 

 835,000 pounds in operating condition. The fuel is bunker 

 type C oil. A boiler pressure of 250 pounds per square inch 

 is employed. The cylinder bore is 27 inches, the stroke 30. 

 The eight drivers are 73 inches in diameter, and the driv- 

 ing wheelbase is 20 feet. The later streamlined 4-8-4's of the 

 Southern Pacific develop 5,500 horsepower at 55 miles an 

 hour, and operate on a boiler pressure of 300 pounds per 

 square inch. 



General Electric Locomotive, 1938 



A nonoperable model (figure 78) of the first of six 

 2-C + C-2 streamlined electric locomotives built by the 

 General Electric Co. for The New York, New Haven and 

 Hartford Railroad Co. was made especially for the Museum 

 collection (USNM 31 1880) by the builder of these locomo- 

 tives. The model, constructed in the Bridgeport, Conn., plant 

 of the General Electric Co. and presented to the Museum in 

 1940, is of plaster painted green and black, with gold trim. It 

 is 31 inches long and has a gauge of 1% inches. 



The electric locomotives represented by this model were 

 built in 1938 at the Erie, Pa., plant of the General Electric 

 Co. for passenger service between New Haven and New 

 York. Originally numbered from 0361 to 0366, they are now 

 numbered from 360 to 365. 



Figure 78. — Model of General Electric locomotive, 1 938. 



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