Milwaukee Road Class EP-2

The Milwaukee Road EP-2's (or Bipolar) comprised of 5 locomotives built by General Electric in 1919 for use on the roads Pacific Extension. 
==History==
In 1919 only a year after the electrification of the Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension they ordered 5 EP-2's from General Electric for use on the system. The name Bipolar comes from the engines use of bipolar electric motors. The engine had 12 motors giving them the look of a Baldwin Centipede. The locomotives rated for 70 mph performed well on passenger service carrying many of the roads name trains such as the Olympian Hiawatha.
In 1953 the 35 year old locomotives were sent to be rebuilt. E1-4 were sent to the roads work shop were workers unaccustomed to working on electrics did a horrible job. Afterwards the engines became prone ot electrical fires and were moved from the Coast portion to the Montana portion and continued to pull passenger trains. From 1958-1960 all but 2 were sent to the scrappers. 
==Survivors==
E2 currently resides on static display at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation as she would've looked just after her rebuild.
==Stock list==
Image	1st No.	2nd No.	Build date	Notes
 	10250 	E1 	 	
 	10251 	E2 	 	
 	10252 	E3 	 	
 	10253 	E4 	 	
 	10254 	E5 	 	
==Trivia==
*By the time of their retirement all 5 engines were painted in a Union Pacific inspired yellow and gray paint scheme.
*Locomotive E2 was donated to the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri in 1962 and moved there that year.
==Gallery==
File:MILW Bi-Polar.jpg
File:220px-E-2 Bi-polar.jpg
Category:Electric locomotives
Category:Passenger locomotives
Category:GE locomotives
Category:Built in 1919
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