The GE 44-ton switcher is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric between 1940 and 1956. It was designed for industrial and light...
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The GE 25-ton switcher (also known as a 25-tonner) is a model of diesel-electric switcher locomotive that was produced by GE Transportation at their Erie...
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The GE 65-ton switcher is a diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric. It has a B-B wheel arrangement, with models producing 400–550 horsepower...
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railroad operated with two GE 45-ton switchers (#84 and #4764) and a volunteer-owned Porter-built 50-ton centercab switcher (#7349). Passenger stock included...
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Railroad. The Almanor Railroad had one GE 44-ton switcher locomotive built in 1946, and one GE 70-ton switcher built in 1955. Stindt 1996, p. 22 "Almanor...
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The railroad uses a GE 44-ton switcher for the Old Road Dinner train and any freight operations. This locomotive was the last 44-ton locomotive ever built...
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water capacity to help #18 with its excursions. Arcade & Attica 110: (GE 44-ton switcher) - Built in 1941 by General Electric as one of the first 13 44ton...
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have been lifted and scrapped by now. Various remains including a GE 44-ton switcher diesel engine are still on the island. It ran from Drumsite to South...
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Truckee Railway Motor Car 22 In May 2013, the railroad acquired a GE 44-ton switcher engine and three passenger cars from the defunct Yuma Valley Railway...
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elsewhere. A road switcher must be able to operate and have good visibility in both directions. As a road engine, a road switcher must be able to operate...
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often used ALCO RS-2s, RS-3s and RS-11s between Bangor and Calais. A GE 44-ton switcher working out of Calais over the light rail of the Eastport branch was...
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Former Western Maryland GE 44-ton switcher #75, in operation on most trips. Former Detroit and Mackinac Railway GE 44-ton Switcher #10, built for the M&STL...
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and Truckee Railroad in May 2013. 1943 USMC GE 44-ton switcher Center Cab Diesel 1957 GE 65-ton switcher Center Cab Diesel 1952 U.S. Army Davenport-Besler...
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Most (except the electrics, the switchers, the AC6000CW, and the Evolution series) are powered by various versions of GE's own FDL diesel prime mover, based...
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5000–5002 General Electric B+B 1948 29722–29724 Narrow gauge version of GE 44-ton switcher. Renumbered CNR class ES-4-a No. 775–777 – sold 1968 to Northern Railway...
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lettering and fewer stripes. Most of the ALCO road switchers, S-4 number 313, S-1s 954 and 958, 44-ton switcher 11, and GP7s 564, 566, 569 and 571 were later...
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Grafton and Upton Railroad (category Switching and terminal railroads)
related to Grafton and Upton Railroad. Official website Hartley, Scott A. (December 2021). "Short Line: Grafton & Upton". Trains. Kalmbach. pp. 44–45....
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operations on April 17, 1941. The company dieselized in 1950, acquiring a GE 44-ton switcher. The closure of a mill in Skaneateles in 1969 led the railroad to...
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Quincy Railroad (California) (category Switching and terminal railroads)
now located at the nearby Western Pacific Railroad Museum: QRR 3 (a GE 44-ton switcher) QRR 4 (an ALCO S-1) QRR 1100 (an EMD TR6A) Another earlier Quincy...
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for excursion runs around the museum property United States Army GE 44-ton switcher 106 United States Army ALCO RSD-1 8651 Canadian National Railway EMD...
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from the original on November 21, 2023. Retrieved November 21, 2023. "GE 44-ton Locomotive". Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum. Archived from the original...
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General Electric (redirect from GE)
index's weight. GE's primary business divisions are: GE Additive GE Aerospace GE Capital GE Digital GE Healthcare GE Power GE Renewable Energy GE Research Through...
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State of New Hampshire-owned ALCO S1 1008. The railroad also leased a GE 44-ton switcher, #2, also state-owned. The first freight run consisted of a tanker...
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General Electric GE 44-ton switcher 1946 28338 became Southern Pacific Railroad #1904 in 1958 2 General Electric GE 44-ton switcher 1942 15034 ex-Lehigh...
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Railroad Museum in 2002. Utah Central Railway 1237 is a 44-ton General Electric diesel-electric switcher, originally built for the U.S. Air Force with the same...
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Diesel-electric CYDZ 251 In service; primary road power and/or switch power. GE 44-ton switcher Diesel-electric FGCX 100 US Navy 65-00345 Out of service awaiting...
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Willamette locomotive 1923 9 purchased new; scrapped in 1957 8 GE Transportation GE 44-ton switcher 1951 30791 built as C.D. Johnson Lumber Company #8; purchased...
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immediately removed and salvaged to meet wartime copper demands. Two GE 44-ton switchers in Southern Pacific's tiger-stripe paint scheme lettered Visalia...
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Number Builder Type Build date Notes 10 Detroit and Mackinac Railway GE 44-ton switcher Unknown This engine was sold to Southern Michigan Railway Society...
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September 6, 1869, to a cheering crowd at Alameda Terminal, while a few cars switched off at the San Jose Junction for San Jose and Gilroy. This opening of a...
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