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Showing posts with label GE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GE. Show all posts
Thursday, February 6, 2025

GE NAMING CONVENTION PART 1: A TALE OF THREE NEW SERIES AND THE DASH 8

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     A promotional GE paper depicting the C30-7A, a model unique to Conrail. Note that this paper describes the locomotive as having 3100 ho...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

CREATURES FROM ERIE: THE STORY OF GE DEMONSTRATORS 606 AND 607

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    Today's blog post is a very very long one. While this story is mostly about two locomotives, to understand what became of both, I h...
Monday, March 18, 2024

THE TUNNEL MOTOR - and EMD's Extended Fight with Thermodynamics

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      Southern Pacific had a unique problem in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While most other roads had success operating EMD's latest...
Monday, March 11, 2024

GE'S SUPER 7

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A group of MGA's Super 7-23B's huddle together at Brownsville, PA in between jobs John Benner photo         By the 1980's, GE ha...
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I am a hobby writer and archivist with a large collection of technical data and information pertaining to diesel electric locomotives and their builders, as well as an employed ride operator with several years of experience.
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