List of formerly preserved electric locomotives

This is a list of electric locomotives that were preserved but wound up being scrapped during their time in preservation for many reasons such as being in poor condition, mechanical problems, being rendered surplus to requirements by their owners, and many other reasons.

The list includes electric locomotives that were owned by major railroads, industrial operations, commuter operators. Also included are locomotives that were owned by interurban railroads. As they are not locomotives, there is a separate list for formerly Interurban cars, elevated railway cars, and streetcars,

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Japan[]

Unit	Model	Build date	Manufacturer	Operator(s)	Scrapped	Cause of scrapping	Notes
E51 (ex-ED12 1)	JNR Class ED12	1923	Schweizerische Wagonsfabrik Schlieren	Japanese National Railways Seibu Railway	c.1970s
ED14 1	JNR Class ED14	1926	General Electric	Japanese National Railways	2019	Facility closure
ED14 2	JNR Class ED14	1926	General Electric	Japanese National Railways	2019	Facility closure
ED14 3	JNR Class ED14	1926	General Electric	Japanese National Railways	2019	Facility closure
ED14 4	JNR Class ED14	1926	General Electric	Japanese National Railways	2019	Facility closure
ED16 10	JNR Class ED16	1931	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	2015
ED16 15	JNR Class ED16	1931	Mitsubishi Shipbuilding	Japanese National Railways	2022	Neglect
ED28 1	JNR Class ED28	1925	English Electric	Horaiji Railway Japanese National Railways Ohmi Railway	Presumably sometime after 2012
ED31 1	JNR Class ED31	1923	Ishikawajima Shipyard	Ina Electric Railway Japanese National Railways Ohmi Railway	December 2017	Deterioration and facility closure
ED31 2	JNR Class ED31	1923	Ishikawajima Shipyard	Ina Electric Railway Japanese National Railways Ohmi Railway	December 2017	Deterioration and facility closure
ED31 5	JNR Class ED31	1923	Ishikawajima Shipyard	Ina Electric Railway Japanese National Railways Ohmi Railway	December 2017	Deterioration and facility closure
ED38 1	JNR Class ED38	1930	Nippon Sharyo	Hanwa Electric Railway Japanese National Railways Chichibu Railway	2019	Facility closure
ED91 11 (ex-ED45 11)	JNR Class ED45	1956	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	2022
ED91 21 (ex-ED45 21)	JNR Class ED45	February 1957	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	2019
ED62 1	JNR Class ED62	1959	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	2010
ED62 14	JNR Class ED62	1959	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	July 2010	Facility closure
ED62 17	JNR Class ED62	1959	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	2021
ED71 1	JNR Class ED71	March 1959	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	September 2019
ED73 1016 (ex-ED73 16)	JNR Class ED73	1963	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	2006
ED75 1	JNR Class ED75	1963	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	December 2019
ED75 39	JNR Class ED75	1965	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Japanese National Railways	1998
ED76 91	JNR Class ED76	1976	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	2021	Neglect
ED77 1	JNR Class ED77	1967	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	2019
ED77 2	JNR Class ED77	1967	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	1999	Facility demolished
ED77 8	JNR Class ED77	1967	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	Unknown
ED78 901	JNR Class ED78	1967	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	1999	Facility demolished
ED92 1	JNR Class ED46	1959	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	May 1975
ED500-901	JR Freight Class ED500	1992	Hitachi	JR Freight	2016
EF15 192	JNR Class EF15	1959	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	2017
EF30 21	JNR Class EF30	1968	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Japanese National Railways	1999	Facility demolished
EF58 65	JNR Class EF58	1953	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	1998
EF58 66	JNR Class EF58	1953	Kisha Seizō	Japanese National Railways	March 1996
EF58 91	JNR Class EF58	1956	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	1990
EF58 93	JNR Class EF58	1956	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	November 2016
EF58 122	JNR Class EF58	1957	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	January 2009
EF58 125	JNR Class EF58	1957	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	2001		Acted as parts donor
EF59 10	JNR Class EF59	1932	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	2006
EF59 16	JNR Class EF59	1934	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	2022		Cab only
EF60 15	JNR Class EF60	1962	Kisha Seizō	Japanese National Railways	2000	Neglect
EF60 16	JNR Class EF60	1962	Kisha Seizō	Japanese National Railways	March 2006	Neglect
EF60 510	JNR Class EF60	1963	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	December 2016
EF61 4	JNR Class EF61	1961	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	2022		Cab only
EF61 201	JNR Class EF61	1961	Kisha Seizō	Japanese National Railways	1999	Facility demolished
EF62 3	JNR Class EF62	1963	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	September 2019
EF63 19	JNR Class EF60	1967	Kawasaki Heavy Industries	Japanese National Railways	September 2019
EF64 77	JNR Class EF64	1976	Kawasaki Heavy Industries	Japanese National Railways	January 2020
EF65 5	JNR Class EF65	1963	Kawasaki Sharyō	Japanese National Railways	c.1990s - 2000s (date unclear)
EF65 33	JNR Class EF65	1963	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	1998	Facility closure
EF65 59	JNR Class EF65	1965	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	c.2000s - 2010s (date unclear)
EF65 75	JNR Class EF65	1965	Nippon Sharyo	Japanese National Railways	December 2003
EF65 112	JNR Class EF65	1963	Nippon Sharyo	Japanese National Railways	2007
EF70 1	JNR Class EF70	1963	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	c.1990s (date unclear)		Last sighted 1994
EF70 4	JNR Class EF70	1963	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	c.1990s (date unclear)		Last sighted 1994
EF70 57	JNR Class EF70	1964	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Japanese National Railways	February 2016	Facility closure
EF70 70	JNR Class EF70	1964	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	c.1999	Facility closure
EF70 1003	JNR Class EF70	1968	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	c.2007	Facility closure
EF71 1	JNR Class EF71	1968	Toshiba	Japanese National Railways	December 2019
EF80 36	JNR Class EF80	1963	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	2017
EF81 5	JNR Class EF81	June 1969	Hitachi	Japanese National Railways	December 2009
EF81 24	JNR Class EF81	August 1969	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Japanese National Railways	Unknown
EF200-2	JR Freight Class EF200	1992	Hitachi	JR Freight	March 2021

United States of America[]

Unit	Model	Build date	Manufacturer	Operator(s)	Nos.	Cause of scrapping	Scrapped	Notes
Commonwelth Edison #5	GE-Westinghouse House 64/65 Ton "Steeplecab"		General Electric	Commonwelth Edison	5	Scrapped to help pay for the Illinois Railway Museum's move to Union; parts presumably salvaged to keep sister engine, #4, running	1964	Sister engine #4 is at IRM; unusual articulated truck design, where the pilots and couplers were mounted to the trucks instead of the frame
Evansville & Ohio Valley No. 154	GE-Westinghouse 64/65 Ton "Steeplecab"		General Electric	Evansville & Ohio Valley Railway Indiana Transportation Museum	154	Facility closure	2018
Illinois Central 1??? & 1???	GE Bi-Level "Highliner"		General Electric	Illinois Central Mendota Depot Museum		Rapidly deteriorating condition due to carbodies being infused with Zinc, no resources or funds to restore them	2017(?)
Illinois Central 1???	GE Bi-Level "Highliner"		General Electric	Illinois Central Metra Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum		Rapidly deteriorating condition due to carbodies being infused with Zinc, no resources or funds to restore them		This was an impulse acquisition; the museum does not have provisions to run electric equipment, was strangely a standalone car that had been separated from it's mate
Pennsylvania Railroad No. 4873	Pennsylvania Railroad Class GG1	January 1939	PRR's Altoona Works	Pennsylvania Railroad Penn Central New Jersey Department of Transportation NJ Transit Rail Operations New Jersey Transit Whippany Railroad Museum	PRR: 4873 PC: 4873 NJDOT: 4873 NJTR: 4873 NJT 4873		1992
SEPTA Nos. 246 and 247	Budd Pioneer III	1956	Budd Company	Pennsylvania Railroad Penn Central Railroad Conrail SEPTA Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania	246 247	Poor condition, PCB contamination	2013-2014

References[]

https://www.kanorail.com/ELtop/ELtop.html