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- New_Haven_EP5 abstract "The New Haven EP-5 was a double-ended mercury arc rectifier electric locomotive built in 1955 by General Electric, for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It was built to haul passenger trains between Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station, New York City and New Haven, Connecticut.The EP-5s were the first AC passenger electric locomotives to use rectifiers to convert alternating current from overhead wires to direct current (DC) for the traction motors. They also collected DC from the third rail used by the New York Central, whose tracks the New Haven used to reach Grand Central Terminal (GCT).All of the class were equipped with the Pennsylvania Railroad's cab signal system needed to operate into Penn Station; Washington, D.C.-Boston through trains over the Hell Gate Bridge, plus the Montrealer/Washingtonian, were their main assignment throughout their New Haven careers.The units were known as "Jets" due to the roaring sound made by their main blowers; an example of this characteristic was inadvertently preserved for posterity in a GCT scene shot for the movie The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit.The EP-5s had a reputation for rapid acceleration and high pulling capacity. However, the class also had a tendency to overheat and catch fire due to the crowded, poorly ventilated internal component arrangement, a situation made necessary by the need for the units to conform to the weight restrictions imposed by the New York Central's Park Avenue steel viaduct. This problem was significantly aggravated by the New Haven management's de-emphasis of electric operations in favor of its new dual-power FL9 diesels, and the railroad's financial condition. By 1962, a year after the New Haven entered bankruptcy, only three units were in service. All 10 were quickly rebuilt under the trustees' management, but by the time of the New Haven's 1969 inclusion in Penn Central, four were again out of service (and were soon scrapped). The EP-5s were rapidly replaced on Washington–Boston trains by the reliable former PRR GG1 electrics.When the New Haven was merged into PC, the six units still in service were redesignated as the E-40 class, and were assigned to commuter train service between GCT and New Haven. The E-40s continued in this service, steadily dwindling in number, until May 1973 when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suddenly banned them after #4971 caught fire in the Park Avenue Tunnel; all went into dead storage. Amtrak passed them up for new electrics. Two of the units, #4973 and #4977, were rebuilt by PC into freight units, stripped of their third-rail capability, steam generators, and one of the two pantographs. They were used in a variety of light-duty freight services, but their utility was limited by their lack of multiple-unit capability and dynamic brakes. Within a year of Penn Central's inclusion into Conrail, the remaining two E-40s were retired. All were scrapped by 1979.".
- New_Haven_EP5 activeYearsEndYear "1954".
- New_Haven_EP5 activeYearsStartYear "1954".
- New_Haven_EP5 builder GE_Transportation.
- New_Haven_EP5 numberBuilt "10".
- New_Haven_EP5 wikiPageExternalLink e40.html.
- New_Haven_EP5 wikiPageExternalLink hoep5page.html.
- New_Haven_EP5 wikiPageExternalLink ep5s.html.
- New_Haven_EP5 wikiPageID "9314367".
- New_Haven_EP5 wikiPageRevisionID "592503058".
- New_Haven_EP5 aarwheels AAR_wheel_arrangement.
- New_Haven_EP5 builddate "1954".
- New_Haven_EP5 builder GE_Transportation.
- New_Haven_EP5 disposition "Scrapped".
- New_Haven_EP5 electricsystem "660".
- New_Haven_EP5 electricsystem "AC Catenary".
- New_Haven_EP5 hasPhotoCollection New_Haven_EP5.
- New_Haven_EP5 lastrundate "1977".
- New_Haven_EP5 locale "Northeastern United States".
- New_Haven_EP5 name "New Haven EP-5".
- New_Haven_EP5 nicknames "Jets".
- New_Haven_EP5 powertype "Electric".
- New_Haven_EP5 railroad New_York,_New_Haven_and_Hartford_Railroad.
- New_Haven_EP5 railroad "Penn Central, Conrail".
- New_Haven_EP5 railroadclass "NH: EP-5".
- New_Haven_EP5 railroadclass "PC / CR: E40".
- New_Haven_EP5 roadnumber "New Haven 370–379".
- New_Haven_EP5 roadnumber "Penn Central 4970–4979".
- New_Haven_EP5 totalproduction "10".
- New_Haven_EP5 tractionmotors "6".
- New_Haven_EP5 tractiveeffort "Continuous: 34000 lb".
- New_Haven_EP5 transmission "and fed through a tap changer supplying 12 Mercury arc Ignitron tube rectifiers or 660 V Resistance controlled DC current providing power to 6 DC traction motors.".
- New_Haven_EP5 wordnet_type synset-locomotive-noun-1.
- New_Haven_EP5 subject Category:11_kV_AC_locomotives.
- New_Haven_EP5 subject Category:C-C_locomotives.
- New_Haven_EP5 subject Category:Electric_locomotives_of_the_United_States.
- New_Haven_EP5 subject Category:General_Electric_locomotives.
- New_Haven_EP5 subject Category:New_York,_New_Haven_and_Hartford_Railroad_locomotives.
- New_Haven_EP5 subject Category:Passenger_locomotives.
- New_Haven_EP5 subject Category:Scrapped_locomotives.
- New_Haven_EP5 type Locomotive.
- New_Haven_EP5 type MeanOfTransportation.
- New_Haven_EP5 type Product.
- New_Haven_EP5 type DesignedArtifact.
- New_Haven_EP5 comment "The New Haven EP-5 was a double-ended mercury arc rectifier electric locomotive built in 1955 by General Electric, for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It was built to haul passenger trains between Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station, New York City and New Haven, Connecticut.The EP-5s were the first AC passenger electric locomotives to use rectifiers to convert alternating current from overhead wires to direct current (DC) for the traction motors.".
- New_Haven_EP5 label "New Haven EP5".
- New_Haven_EP5 sameAs m.02846cs.
- New_Haven_EP5 sameAs Q16982545.
- New_Haven_EP5 sameAs Q16982545.
- New_Haven_EP5 wasDerivedFrom New_Haven_EP5?oldid=592503058.
- New_Haven_EP5 isPrimaryTopicOf New_Haven_EP5.
- New_Haven_EP5 name "Jets".
- New_Haven_EP5 name "New Haven EP-5".