This official Westinghouse postcard from 1925 gives us a view of the first electric locomotives built for the Virginian Railway through a partnership between the American Locomotive Works and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company both with plants in Schenectady, New York, and both well known for their joint construction of early box cab electric engines. Alco built the frames, bodies, and mechanical parts while Westinghouse provided the electric motors, controls, and and hardware. An individual unit consisted of three semi-permanent coupled locomotives and were designed and built for the sole purpose of hauling heavy coal trains from the coalfields on the border of Virginia and West Virginia to the port of Norfolk, Virginia. The railroad had come to be known as a "conveyor belt on rails". As with some previously posted steam locomotives, all contending for a similar title, these units have entered that now crowded field by claiming to be "The Mightiest Locomotive in the World."
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