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Locomotives built or sold by the Westinghouse Electric Company. Westinghouse's transportation division (rail equipment) was founded 1894 and sold to AEG 1988, later merged into Adtranz and Bombardier. [1] [2] Production of locomotives ended after the early 1950s.
Locomotives built or sold by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1886−1999). Some may include locomotives with mechanical portions built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works . Pages in category "Westinghouse locomotives"
Baldwin-Westinghouse steeple cab electric locomotives operating as Iowa Traction Railroad (IATR) 50 and 54 in Mason City, Iowa, in 2009. Examples served with the Oshawa Electric Railway in Oshawa, Ontario. These were delivered in the 1920s to provide freight service within the city, serving mainly the General Motors plant. [10]
A World War II print advertisement for Baldwin (Whitcomb) "Little Giant" switcher locomotives.. The Geo D. Whitcomb Company was founded by George Dexter Whitcomb (1834–1914), of Chicago, Illinois, who started a modest machine shop in 1878, and began the manufacture of coal mining machinery, laying the foundation for the concern that became known as The Whitcomb Locomotive Company.
Wabtec facility, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, commonly known as Wabtec, is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999.
Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd) was a British supplier of railway signalling and control equipment to the rail industry worldwide. Its head office was in Chippenham , Wiltshire , where it manufactured a variety of mechanical and electrical/electronic railway signalling equipment.
Westinghouse continued to operate the facility until its closure, with a foundry and knitting company operating at the factory location. The buildings were demolished (with the exception of the Westinghouse office building along Page Blvd.) and the land cleared in 2010, with the eventual goal of placing a mixed development on the site. [8] [9] [10]
The W301, the first Westinghouse direct-drive (3600RPM) unit, was the immediate predecessor of the model W501, introduced in 1967/68 with an initial rating of 40 MW (ISO/gas). (Note: some ratings listed in early publications used NEMA site conditions, i.e., 1000 ft elevation and 85 °F (29 °C), which reduces power output by 7.5% below that at ...