E60 Quick Facts:
• Twenty six built by GE, Erie, PA, 1974-6.
• 6,000+/- Horsepower.
• Weight 183 tons.
• Original cost $692,000.
• Designed for 120 MPH passenger
service on Northeast Corridor
• Ran regularly, at reduced speed
to avoid derailment, until 1984, then
on standby service.
• No. 603 donated by Amtrak. Rest of fleet
scrapped (or earlier modified for other
use, sold to other lines).

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