106-090-DCC CB&Q EMD E5A/Silver Streak Zephyr Train Pack - DCC-Fitted Brand_Easy-Model 118 in h (4

118 in h (4

1) and had hardly settled into service when events on the other side of the world required their first overseas deployment

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AUX7 and AUX8

The HEAs worked in both mixed freight and block train formations

106-090-DCC CB&Q EMD E5A/Silver Streak Zephyr Train Pack - DCC-Fitted Brand_Easy-Model 118 in h (4The EMD E5 was built as a 2000 horsepower (despite the E in the name of the locomotive series originally referring to an Eighteen hundred horsepower engine specification) locomotive for passenger service specifically for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy. As of 2012 Silver Pilot is the last surviving E5 unit, residing at the Illinois Railways Museum in Union, IL. Other items decorated in the Chicago Burlington & Quincy livery are also available.