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unusual facts about GE 80-ton switcher


GE 80-ton switcher

The Valley Railroad in Essex, Connecticut owns a pair of 80-tonners, 0900 and 0901, for use on the Essex Clipper Dinner Train.


GE 45-ton switcher

Michigan State University's on-campus T. B. Simon Power Plant uses a 45-tonner painted in school colors to position coal hoppers under a Carhoe II unloader.

Yancey Railroad

The railroad was renamed the Yancey Railroad and began operations on April 1, 1955, using a GE 45-ton switcher diesel locomotive built new for the Yancey in March 1955 at GE's locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania as builder number 32344 at a cost of $44,000.


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