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Before Diesel engines had been perfected in the early 1900s, many companies chose to use the gasoline engine for rail motive power. The first GE Locomotive was a series of four-axle (B-B) boxcab gasoline-electric machines closely related to their "doodlebugs", a line of self-propelled passenger cars built in the early 1900s. One of their first major customers was the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company, better known as the Dan Patch Electric Lines after the owner's prize horse of the same name. Founded on the principle of not using steam power if they could avoid it, they asked GE to make them a series of locomotives based on their doodlebugs. GE complied, and created a number of locomotives originally claimed to be the first engines using an engine to drive a generator for traction motors. However, historians later determined that a narrow-gauge diesel-electric locomotive had been built in 1912. == As-built specifications for No. 100 == *Serial Number: 3763 *Build Date: June 1913 *Engines (2): GM-16C4 V-8 *Motors (4): GE 205 D *Dimensions: * *Weight: * *Overall length: * *Cab length: * *Width: * *Height: *Starting tractive effort: *Rated top speed: * *Actual top speed: light, with a 5-car train 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GE 57-ton gas-electric boxcab」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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