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GIL BENNETT GM-10s on the SP, 18x27”, Watercolor


In the 1970s the big western railroads gave serious thought to electrifying some mountain routes to cope with the energy crisis causing fuel prices to spiral out of control. General Electric and EMD both produced new electric locomotive demonstrators. The 6,000-h.p. E60C was GE’s entry, while EMD demoed the 10,000-h.p. GM-10 and 6,000-h.p. GM-6. Had the oil embargo of that era endured, we may have seen catenary strung above Donner and Tehachapi. In this “what if” portrait, two GM-10s in the Southern Pacific 500 series climb the Sierras with two GM-6 electrics mid- train to help drag the train over the mountains. To protect the catenary from slides, additional snow sheds would have to have been built, and are shown here as well.


GEORGE C. CLARK Penn Central No. 4715, 10x14”, Watercolor


Painted on-site in 2002, this is one of a series of images the artist created at the Illinois Railway Museum. The diminutive S-motor, one of the earliest successful mainline electric locomotives in America, was built in 1906 for the New York Central. It is also noteworthy for having run in regular service for 75 years. The artist emphasizes that he paints trains from life as he sees them, not the way they may have looked in the past. In this instance, the locomotive was outside at the time the work was executed, but is now indoors, protected from the weather, and thus would be much harder to capture as a painting.


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