Brookville Locomotive Company

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Brookville Equipment Corporation

Type
Founded	1918
Headquarters	Brookville, Pennsylvania, United States
Industry	rail transport
Products	underground haulage equipment, locomotives and mass transit applications
Website	www.brookvilleequipment.com/

Brookville Locomotive Company, based in Brookville, Pennsylvania, United States manufactures railroad locomotives for industrial and light capacity switching needs. The company is now known as Brookville Equipment Corporation

1 History
2 Products
3 2008
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The company began in 1918 by installing flanged railroad wheels on Ford trucks. The company soon began building gasoline-powered locomotives of their own during World War I.

In order to keep up with technological advances through the 20th century, Brookville has had to constantly improve their products. Brookville's locomotives were the first to include planetary drive axles rather than chain drives.

[edit] Products

In 2007, BEC unveiled its CoGeneration locomotives with up to 2,100 horsepower (1,600 kW), generated through the use of three low-emission diesel engines. The use of three clean-burning Tier-3 engines offers a "Power on Demand" feature where engines come on-line as power needs are realized. This feature minimizes emissions and fuel consumption. CoGeneration locomotives also offer the most advanced traction drive system. Equipped with individual, water-cooled IGBTs for each traction motor, this provides the highest rail adhesion.

Brookville currently manufactures equipment used in mining, tunneling, and industrial and switching applications and remanufactures streetcar equipment, such as the ones for Route 15 in Philadelphia. In 2008, Brookville built its first road switchers for Shore Line East and the Metro-North Railroad. The locomotives are given the model designation of BL20GH.

Brookville also offers exhaust after treatments for its underground diesel locomotives that reduce emissions by 85%.^{[citation needed]} BEC's Railwalker re-railing devices can also put its locomotives back on-track without the risk of injury to the operator.

[edit] 2008

Metro-North Railroad ordered 12 Model BL20GH locomotives destined for the New Haven and MNR lines. The order also includes two multi-engine CoGeneration™ locomotives for MTA Capital and four locomotives for Staten Island Railroad.