Brian Norden Wrote:
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> The information I find on the locomotive is that
> it is listed as built June, 1957, with
> construction number 32933.
>
> Regarding the ALCO/GE sales combination, it lasted
> from 1940 to 1953.
Brian This is conflicting information. If it was a combo with GE and Alco
and that ended in 1953, how could it be built in June of 1957. You get my drift here?
As for the U25-B have shot some on the TTI in Kentucky, about 50 miles from here.
They were about the last stronghold of those engines, but alas they are not running now, as
the coal business went bust for them!!! Nothing is running.
Greg
GE continued to supply
> electric equipment to ALCO, but it began
> developing its own line of heavy locomotives that
> resulted with the introduction of the U25B in
> 1960. [source:
The Diesel's First 50 Years
> by Louis A. Marre, published by Paired Rail RR
> Publications, 2012.]
>
> The White Pass 90-serries ("shovel nose")
> locomotives started coming in 1954 from GE with
> ALCO 6-241 engines:
> 90-91 in 1954
> 92-94 in 1956
> 95-97 in 1963
> 98-100 in 1966
>
> Then it began getting locomotives from Montreal
> Locomotive with an advance version of the 6-241.
>
> BN