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GE 44-ton switcher

Index GE 44-ton switcher

The GE 44-ton switcher is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric between 1940 and 1956. [1]

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Arcade and Attica Railroad

The Arcade & Attica Railroad is a shortline railroad that hauls freight between Arcade, New York and North Java, New York.

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Arcata and Mad River Railroad

The Arcata and Mad River Railroad, founded in 1854, was the oldest working railroad in California.

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Arcata, California

Arcata, originally Union Town or Union, is a city adjacent to the Arcata Bay (northern) portion of Humboldt Bay in Humboldt County, California, United States.

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Arkville, New York

Arkville is a hamlet in the Middletown, Delaware County, New York, United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Boston and Maine Corporation

The Boston and Maine Corporation, known as the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M), was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England.

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Burlington Junction Railway

The Burlington Junction Railway is a Class III short line railroad which was chartered in 1985.

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California State Railroad Museum

The California State Railroad Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, USA, interpreting the role of the "iron horse" in connecting California to the rest of the nation.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar Inc. is an American Fortune 100 corporation which designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets and sells machinery, engines, financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network.

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Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan

Clinton is a village in Lenawee County in the Irish Hills area of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Comboios de Portugal

CP — Comboios de Portugal, EPE (CP; English: Trains of Portugal) is a state-owned company which operates passenger trains in Portugal.

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Commonwealth Railways

The Commonwealth Railways were established in 1917 by the Government of Australia with the Commonwealth Railways Act to administer the Trans-Australia and Port Augusta to Darwin railways.

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Concord and Claremont Railroad

The Concord and Claremont Railroad was an American railroad company during the mid-nineteenth century in New Hampshire spanning from Concord to Claremont.

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Conway Scenic Railroad

The Conway Scenic Railroad is a heritage railway in North Conway, New Hampshire, United States, owned and operated by Profile Mountain Holdings Corp.

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Dalarna

Dalarna (English exonym: Dalecarlia), is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden.

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Danbury Railway Museum

The Danbury Railway Museum is housed in the former Union Station on the east end of downtown Danbury, Connecticut, United States.

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Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City, making it part of the New York metropolitan area.

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Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad

The Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad is a short line railroad located in Dansville, New York.

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Delaware and Ulster Railroad

The Delaware and Ulster Railroad (DURR) is a heritage railroad based in Arkville, New York.

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Detroit and Mackinac Railway

The Detroit and Mackinac Railway, informally known as the "Turtle Line", was a railroad in the northeastern part of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Diesel–electric transmission

A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.

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Domnarvet

The ironworks around 1900Domnarvets Jernverk (Domnarvets ironworks), is a steelworks in Borlänge, Sweden.

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Duluth, Georgia

Duluth is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States.

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Falun

Falun is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010.

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Florida Railroad Museum

The Florida Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Parrish, Florida.

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Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad

The Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad (FJ&G) was formerly a 132-mile steam engine and electric interurban railroad that connected its namesake towns in east central New York State to Schenectady, New York.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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GE Transportation

GE Transportation, formerly known as GE Rail, is a division of General Electric.

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Georgia State Railroad Museum

The Georgia State Railroad Museum (formerly the Roundhouse Railroad Museum) is a museum in Savannah, Georgia located at a historic Central of Georgia Railroad site.

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Great Western Railway of Colorado

The Great Western Railway of Colorado operates about of track in Colorado and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the BNSF Railway.

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Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway

The Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway is a 167-kilometre (102-mile) long industrial railway from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Waugh on Shoal Lake near Manitoba's eastern boundary in Canada.

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Hartwell Railroad

The Hartwell Railroad dates to 1878 when the company was chartered to build a narrow gauge rail line between Hartwell and Bowersville in Hart County, Georgia.

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Heber City, Utah

Heber City is a city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.

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Heber Valley Railroad

The Heber Valley Railroad (HVRX) is a heritage railroad based in Heber City, Utah.

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Hofors

Hofors is a locality and the seat of Hofors Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 6,681 inhabitants in 2010.

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Humboldt Bay

Humboldt Bay is a natural bay and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County.

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Iberian-gauge railways

Iberian-gauge railways (ancho ibérico, trocha ibérica, bitola ibérica) is the name given to the railways using track gauge of, most extensively used by the railways of Spain and Portugal.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Railways

Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways.

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Indiana Transportation Museum

The Indiana Transportation Museum (initialized ITM, reporting mark ITMZ) is a railroad museum located in the Forest Park neighborhood of Noblesville, Indiana, United States.

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Kalmbach Publishing

Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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Korbel, Humboldt County, California

Korbel (formerly North Fork) is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.

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Loading gauge

A loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures.

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Maine Central Railroad Company

The Maine Central Railroad Company was a former U. S. Class I railroad in central and southern Maine.

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Missouri Pacific Railroad

The Missouri Pacific Railroad, commonly abbreviated MoPac, with nickname of The Mop, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River.

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Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia

Musquodoboit Harbour is a Canadian rural community in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.

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National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide

The National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, South Australia, is Australia's largest railway museum with over 100 exhibits on display, primarily from the Commonwealth and South Australian Railways.

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Naval Air Station Jacksonville

Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jacksonville) is a military airport, eight miles (13 km) south of the central business district of Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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New South Wales 79 class locomotive

In 1943, during World War II, four diesel-electric industrial shunting type locomotives built by General Electric Company, Erie for the United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) were imported from the United States of America by the Department of Supply under Lend-Lease conditions for use at the Dunheved munitions factory in Sydney.

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New South Wales Government Railways

The New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) was the agency of the Government of New South Wales that administered rail transport in New South Wales, Australia, between 1855 and 1932.

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New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad

The New York, Chicago and St.

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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in northeastern United States from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century.

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New York, Ontario and Western Railway

The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, more commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad with origins in 1868, lasting until March 29, 1957 when it was ordered liquidated by a US bankruptcy judge.

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Noblesville, Indiana

Noblesville is a city in, and the county seat of, Hamilton County, Indiana, United States, located just north of Indianapolis.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northwestern Pacific Railroad

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional railroad that serves the North Coast of California.

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NSW Rail Museum

The NSW Rail Museum is the main museum division of Transport Heritage NSW.

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Ogema, Saskatchewan

Ogema is a town with a population of 403 located in south Central Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Old Sacramento State Historic Park

Old Sacramento State Historic Park is located within the Old Sacramento Historic District of Sacramento, California.

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Parrish, Florida

Parrish is an unincorporated community in Manatee County, Florida, United States, located near the intersection of U.S. 301 and State Road 62.

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Port Adelaide

Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD.

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Port Stanley Terminal Rail

The Port Stanley Terminal Rail (PSTR) is a heritage railway that passes over the historic tracks of The London and Port Stanley Railway (L&PS) between Port Stanley and St. Thomas, Ontario.

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Port Stanley, Ontario

Port Stanley is a community in the Municipality of Central Elgin, Ontario, Elgin County, located on the north shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of Kettle Creek.

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Portola, California

Portola is the only incorporated city in Plumas County, California, United States.

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard located in Kittery on the southern boundary of Maine near the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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Prime mover (locomotive)

In engineering, a prime mover is an engine that converts fuel to useful work.

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Quincy Railroad (California)

The Quincy Railroad is a 3.27-mile terminal railroad located at Quincy, California.

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Red Coat Road and Rail

The Red Coat Road & Rail Ltd. is a Canadian short line railway company operating on trackage in Saskatchewan.

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Sacramento Southern Railroad

The Sacramento Southern Railroad is a heritage railroad owned by the California State Railroad Museum which operates excursion trains on it.

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Samoa, California

Samoa (formerly, Brownsville) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California.

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San Angelo, Texas

San Angelo is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas, United States.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County.

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Short ton

The short ton is a unit of weight equal to.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Southeastern Railway Museum

The Southeastern Railway Museum (initialised SRM, AAR code SMRX) is a railroad museum located in Duluth, Georgia, in suburban Atlanta.

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Southern Michigan Railroad Society

The Southern Michigan Railroad Society is a railway museum in Clinton, Michigan, United States.

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Southern Prairie Railway

Southern Prairie Railway is a tourist railway operated by the Ogema Heritage Railway Association (OHRA) in Ogema, Saskatchewan.

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Southern Railroad of New Jersey

The Southern Railroad of New Jersey is a small short-line railroad company based in Winslow, New Jersey.

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Straight-six engine

The straight-six engine or inline-six engine (often abbreviated I6 or L6) is an internal combustion engine with the cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft (straight engine).

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Thirlmere, New South Wales

Thirlmere is a small semi-rural town in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire.

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Tidewater Southern Railway

The Tidewater Southern Railway was a short line railroad in Central California in the United States.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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V8 engine

A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder V configuration engine with the cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two sets (or banks) of four, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft.

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Virginia and Truckee Railroad

The Virginia and Truckee Railroad is a privately owned historical heritage railroad, headquartered in Virginia City, Nevada in the United States.

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Virginia City, Nevada

Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada.

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Washington and Old Dominion Railroad

The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (colloquially referred to as the W&OD), the successor to the bankrupt Washington and Old Dominion Railway, was an intrastate short-line railroad located in Northern Virginia.

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West Burlington, Iowa

The City of West Burlington is in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States, adjacent to the City of Burlington located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River.

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Western Maryland

Western Maryland is the portion of the U.S. state of Maryland that typically consists of Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties.

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Western Maryland Railway

The Western Maryland Railway was an American Class I railroad (1852–1983) which operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

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Western Pacific Railroad Museum

The Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) in Portola, California, formerly known as the Portola Railroad Museum before, is a heritage railroad that preserves and operates historic American railroad equipment.

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Western Railway Museum

The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_44-ton_switcher

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