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New Haven EP-5 Jets Classic Power No 9 by Joe Cunningham Soft Cover
New Haven EP-5 Jets Classic Power No 9 by Joe Cunningham
Soft Cover
98 pages
Copyright 1991
CONTENTS
5 INTRODUCTION
7 CHAPTER 1 A NEED FOR MODERNIZATION
The First On-Board Rectifier
The Pennsylvania Railroad Experiments
The Pennsylvania's Successful Experimentals
New Haven Buys Ignitrons
14 CHAPTER 2 THE EP-5 JETS
Interiors
The Cab
28 CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST DECADE
Enter Mr. McGinnis
On the Road
King of the Road
An Uncertain Future
Enter the Trustees
46 CHAPTER 4 A DECLINE TO OBLIVION
The Penn Central Era
A Reprieve
The Conrail Years
Retrospective
65 CHAPTER 5 IGNITRONS ELSEWHERE
Virginian's Ignitrons
The Pennsylvania's E-44
The Ignitron's Successor
70 APPENDIX ICOMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE
72 APPENDIX IISERVICE HISTORY
72 APPENDIX IIITHE WRECK AND THE ICC REPORT
78 NH EP-5 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
94 MODELS AND MEMORABILIA
INTRODUCTION
On their appearance in the spring of 1955, the New Haven's EP-5 locomotives drew considerable attention. Trade journals spoke of radical engineering innovations, while general interest publications noted the colorful, streamlined appearance and fast, powerful performance of the new electrics. But the New Haven railroad was beset by financial and management problems that would lead to reduced service reliability and poor performance records before a decade had passed. Ironically, bankruptcy and a re-evaluation of the road's physical plant would result in the first and only heavy overhaul the units would ever receive. Still, by the time the New Haven was absorbed by the even more financially decrepit Penn Central in 1969, 40 percent of the fleet was in dead storage. Beset by electrical problems and fires, the final unit was retired in early 1977, after several years in slow local freight service.
Operating over the former New Haven Railroad's electric zone (now part of Amtrak's Boston-Washington Northeast Corridor) the EP-5 always existed in the shadow of the legendary Pennsylvania GG-1. With phenomenal performance, reliability, and longevity, the GG-1 has justifiably won the title, in the archives of mechanical and electrical engineering history, of America's premier electric locomotive. Without casting aspersions on the performance record of the 139-unit GG-1 fleet, this volume will review the relatively unknown EP-5. Not only did it challenge the GG-1 in similar demanding high-speed intercity passenger service, but its engineering innovations would determine the course of future U.S. electric locomotive design for over three decades.
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