One of 7 trolley style freight locomotives, (45 tons, 500 hp, built circa 1914) that were used on a steep (4-5%) and winding 9-mile (14.5 km) section of the Skagit Railway over which steam power was impractical. As well as the locos, two electric box motors from defunct Seattle and Tacoma lines provided the motive power. Four classic wooden interurban cars from the Puget Sound Electric Railway and five more from the Oregon Electric were all demotorized and used as passenger trailers. The line had no electric-powered passenger cars, although they had two old J.G. Brill rail-buses for low-volume through service with the steam division.
Both the electric operations, and the railway itself, ended in 1954. More info here
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