Great Northern Bi-Polars

[twomule]

I just ran across this picture today, I know the GN used electrics over the Cascades, but did they really have some Bi-Polars?????

http://www.historicrail.com/product_info.po?ID=18254&product=Calendars+and+Holiday&category=railroads&subcategory=North%20American (http://www.historicrail.com/product_info.po?ID=18254&product=Calendars+and+Holiday&category=railroads&subcategory=North%20American)

[HemiAdda2d]

Nope, those are definitely Milwaukee Road. No GN electric was Bi-polar, that I know of.

[twomule]

Thanks Hemi, no doubt a typo.

[BoxcabE50]

I'm sure the artist knows enough that this mistake was done somewhere else. That's definitely the Olympian Hiawatha Train 16, two Milw Bipolars, and the wrong Pass for GN...

:eek:

Boxcab E50

[Triplex]

That seems like something a model manufacturer would do, never mind that MILW used 3000V DC and GN used 11000V AC.

[Mr. SP]

GN did have two HUGE electric's in addition to the boxcab "Y"Class and "Z"Class motors.
The "W" Class electric's built by GE in 1947 were 100 feet long and had a double ended streamlined carbodies.
The "W" Class electrics had a similar but different body than the MILW Little Joes.