The American Locomotives Built For Stalin: MR "Little Joe's"
The Little Joe locomotives were massive GE electrics built for Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, then stranded in America by a Cold War embargo. Here's how engines named after Stalin ended up hauling freight over the Montana and Idaho mountains for the Milwaukee Road, while others went to Indiana and Brazil. The full story of the Milwaukee Road Little Joe (class EF-4): the 1946 Soviet order, the 1948 export ban, the million-dollar blunder that nearly cost the railroad the deal, and where all twenty locomotives finally ended up.
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