Commonwealth Edison #4 at the Illinois Railway Museum in 2004

Commonwealth Edison #4 was built by Alco and General Electric in 1911.  This style of electric locomotive is called a steeplecab, because of the tall, centered cab. Commonwealth Edison used the locomotive on a short railroad it built to supply coal to a power plant in Chicago. Commonwealth Edison purchased its last electric locomotive (used) in 1948. Shortly after that, Commonwealth Edison began buying diesel locomotives.

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