Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 3, 2007

United States President Warren G. Harding in the cab of a Milwaukee Road class EP-3 electric locomotive.

The Milwaukee Road's class EP-3 comprised ten electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse. They were nicknamed "Quills" because of their use of a quill drive. Although they were good haulers and well liked by engineers, poor design and constant mechanical problems plagued them for their entire lives and they were the first of the Milwaukee Road's electric locomotives to be retired.