[hakfoo]

There were some small steam locomotives switched to electric firing, as a way to use existing infrastructure during wartime coal shortages. It's questionable if it would scale to the levels you'd want to allow a large main-line engine to run at peak performance.

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/swisselec/swisse...

[camtarn]

Ha, wow. That is incredibly odd, but makes sense given the constraints they were under. Thanks for the link!

[ElevenLathe]

This is amazing. Thank you.