Commonwealth Edison #15 is a 600 horsepower SW1 built by EMD in September 1950. Locomotives such as #15 replaced the electric locomotives on the Commonwealth Edison line in Chicago. They served until the power plant closed in the 1970s and the railroad shut down. The tracks remained until the mid 1980s, but almost all have now been removed.
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Commonwealth Edison #4 was built by Alco and General Electric in 1911. This style of electric locomotive is called a steeplecab, because of the tall, centered cab. Commonwealth Edison used the locomotive on a short railroad it built to supply coal to a power plant in Chicago. Commonwealth Edison purchased its last electric locomotive (used) in 1948. Shortly after that, Commonwealth Edison began buying diesel locomotives.
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