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The U34CH is a 3,600 hp (2,700 kW) passenger diesel locomotive built by General Electric between 1970 and 1973. In total, 33 U34CH units were built; 32 were built for the New Jersey Department of Transportation and operated by the Erie Lackawanna Railway and, later, Conrail, with the last unit coming as a later rebuild of a GE U30C for the New York MTA.
The EMD E8 is a 2,250-horsepower (1,678 kW), A1A-A1A passenger-train locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of La Grange, Illinois.A total of 450 cab versions, or E8As, were built from August 1949 to January 1954, 447 for the U.S. and 3 for Canada. 46 E8Bs were built from December 1949 to January 1954, all for the U.S.
Erie Lackawanna 3607 June 1967 SD45 Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) Conrail (CR) - National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri [36] [37] 31598 Great Northern 400: May 1966 SD45 Great Northern Railway; Burlington Northern Railroad; May 2009 Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota [38] [39]
Three former Conrail (née Erie Lackawanna) units were rebuilt by GE in 1987 and sold to Island Creek Coal for the Antaibao surface mine in China. A cab built from numerous GE locomotive parts representing D&H #757 is preserved at the Toronto Railway Museum and is currently in use as a locomotive simulator. [2]
Diesel 3 3,000 hp (2,237 kW) Ex-Central Railroad of New Jersey GP40P; Rebuilt by Conrail 1991–1993. Last remaining units from a 13 engine order. 4101 painted in heritage NJDOT scheme. 4109 painted in heritage Central Railroad of New Jersey scheme. EMD GP40PH-2B: 4200–4219 1965–1969 1993–1994 19 Ex-Penn Central.
When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began to subsidize commuter rail systems of Penn Central Railroad and Erie Lackawanna Railway in the early-1970s, they inherited equipment of the former New York Central Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, some of which dated back to the early 20th Century.
The GE U36C is a 3600 hp diesel-electric locomotive model built by GE Transportation Systems.. The length of the locomotive was 67 ft 3 in (20.50 m), standard for U30C, U33C, U34CH, U36C, U36CG, C30-7 and C36-7.
The Erie-Built used GE's model 746 traction motor, as used on the Great Northern Y-1 electric locomotive, [1] making it the first diesel-electric locomotive to deliver 500 hp (370 kW) per axle. [1] The locomotive was too heavy for a four-axle wheel arrangement, and had to be fitted with idler axles.