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When the Bi-Polars were young, their owners and builders delighted in staging pulling contests such as a 1924 \"Battle of the Giants,\" in which a Bi-Polar easily won a tug-of-war against a pair of steam locomotives, a 2-8-0 and a 2-6-6-2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, the source of the Bi-Polars' advantages was also their chief drawback: that darn overhead wire, which was incredibly expensive to put up. The Milwaukee Road's original plan was to electrify 870 miles of track from central Montana to Puget Sound. But a 1923 bankruptcy left the road without funds to string wire over the middle part of the route, and the Washington State and Montana\/Idaho divisions were never joined. As a result, the Bi-Polars spent most of their lives on the 214-mile Coast Division, hauling passengers between the farming town of Othello and the ports of Tacoma and Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey soldiered on dependably for more than three decades, until the railroad decided to \"modernize\" them in the early 1950s. Unfamiliar with electric locomotives, shop crews in Milwaukee severely compromised the dependability of the engines, while making a modest attempt to streamline the Bi-Polars' exteriors, mainly by rounding off the noses. The engines became so failure-prone that all five were retired by 1960; one survives today in the National Museum of Transport in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bi-Polar returns to the Premier Line in 2019 in its original, non-streamlined body style, upgraded with Proto-Sound 3.0. 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The Milwaukee Road's full name described its route perfectly - from the Midwest to the Northwest with not much in between. After Chicago and the Twin Cities, passengers on the road's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlympian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e saw virtually nothing but farms, ranches, and mountains for 1500 miles until they reached the Coast at Tacoma or Seattle. But in 1919, this sparsely traveled mountainous route seemed the ideal place for the General Electric Company and what was then called the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway to prove a point: electric power was the Future of American Railroading. And the five EP-2 Bi-Polars were going to be the engines to do it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOfficially called Bi-Polar Gearless Types, they were vastly superior to the steam locomotives of their day. With 3,200 continuous horsepower, an EP-2 could pull 13 Pullmans up a 2.2% grade, an incredibly steep hill in real-life railroading. When the Bi-Polars were young, their owners and builders delighted in staging pulling contests such as a 1924 \"Battle of the Giants,\" in which a Bi-Polar easily won a tug-of-war against a pair of steam locomotives, a 2-8-0 and a 2-6-6-2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, the source of the Bi-Polars' advantages was also their chief drawback: that darn overhead wire, which was incredibly expensive to put up. The Milwaukee Road's original plan was to electrify 870 miles of track from central Montana to Puget Sound. But a 1923 bankruptcy left the road without funds to string wire over the middle part of the route, and the Washington State and Montana\/Idaho divisions were never joined. As a result, the Bi-Polars spent most of their lives on the 214-mile Coast Division, hauling passengers between the farming town of Othello and the ports of Tacoma and Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey soldiered on dependably for more than three decades, until the railroad decided to \"modernize\" them in the early 1950s. Unfamiliar with electric locomotives, shop crews in Milwaukee severely compromised the dependability of the engines, while making a modest attempt to streamline the Bi-Polars' exteriors, mainly by rounding off the noses. The engines became so failure-prone that all five were retired by 1960; one survives today in the National Museum of Transport in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bi-Polar returns to the Premier Line in 2019 in its original, non-streamlined body style, upgraded with Proto-Sound 3.0. 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