File:Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad - 81 diesel locomotive (NW2) 1 (27091349171).jpg
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This is a General Motors Electro-Motive Division NW2 switcher engine. It is on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in the town of Strasburg. It was built in December 1946 and was used as unit # 81 on the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (nicknamed "Ma and Pa"). Info. from rgusrail.com: "This Electro-Motive Division NW2 switcher is one of two (# 80 & # 81) delivered to the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad in 1946. It was leased to the P.H. Glatfelter Company in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania in 1986. The company donated it to the museum in 1997. The NW2 weighs 248,000 pounds. With an Electro-Motive Division 12-567 prime mover powering a General Motors D15C generator to drive four General Motors-D37 traction motors, it developed 31,000 pounds of continuous tractive effort at 11 miles per hour with a top speed of 65 miles per hour. One thousand, one hundred and forty-five were produced from 1939 to 1949, one thousand, one hundred and twenty-one for U.S. railroads and twenty-four for Canada. The Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad, affectionately known as the "Ma and Pa", was a shortline railroad connecting York, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. It operated from 1901 into the 1950s. Passenger services ended in 1954, the first section of line was abandoned in 1958 and most of the remaining line had gone by 1984. The "Ma and Pa" was popular with railfans in the 1930s and 1940s because of its antiquated equipment and a particularly picturesque line, which snaked south through the hills of rural Maryland and Pennsylvania." |
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| Author | James St. John |
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