The Little Joe is a type of railroad electric locomotive built by General Electric. [1] The locomotives had twelve axles, eight of them powered, in a 2-D+D-2 arrangement. They were originally intended to be exported to the Soviet Union and designed to operate on Soviet Railways (SZhD) 3,300-volt DC overhead line system .

Nov 5, 2024 · The unique "Little Joe" electric locomotives were built by General Electric in 1946 to fill an order placed by the Soviet Railways to operate on a 3,300 volt, DC system.

Nicknamed "Little Joe" by railroad workers, they became famous to several generations of model railroad enthusiasts through construction of N, HO, S & O scale models of the "Dockside" switcher. Arguably one of the best known of all steam locomotive models for half a century, versions of the C-16 have been offered by Varney, Rivarossi , Gem ...

The Little Joe is a type of railroad electric locomotive built by General Electric. The locomotives had twelve axles, eight of them powered, in a 2-D+D-2 arrangement. They were originally intended to be exported to the Soviet Union and designed to operate on Soviet Railways (SZhD) 3,300-volt DC overhead line system .

In 1919, with the arrival of a newer generation of passenger power, the EP-1 locomotives were converted to EF-1 freight locomotives, and renumbered 10230–10241. In this role, they served until the 1950s, when the arrival of the Little Joe locomotives began to …

Oct 11, 2019 · The Little Joe was a type of railroad electric locomotive built by General Electric for export to the Soviet Union (USSR) in the 1950s. The locomotives had twelve axles, eight of them powered, in a 2-D+D-2 arrangement.

1 day ago · It was The Milwaukee's operating employees who first referred to the units as Little Joe Stalin's locomotives, which was eventually shortened to simply Little Joe. Of the eight sold, three had gone to the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (the South Shore Line), and five to the Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro of Brazil.

The Little Joe is a type of railroad electric locomotive built by General Electric. The locomotives had twelve axles, eight of them powered, in a 2-D+D-2 arrangement. They were originally intended to be exported to the Soviet Union and designed to operate on Soviet Railways (SZhD) 3,300-volt DC overhead line system .

Dec 11, 2009 · The train is notable because of its nickname, “Little Joe.” The amazing Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois, has a Little Joe the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend converted to Standard Gauge (4 feet, 8.5 inches). The unit is operational.

Little Joe is a nickname that was given to the General Electric’s electric locomotive No. 750 when it was on a four month demonstration tour of the Milwaukee starting in December 1948. It was one of 20 locomotives built for Russia.