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80-ton GE |
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This General Electric drawing from May 1937 illustrates the basic appearance for 80-tonner serial numbers 12184-12188, which were built in October and November 1937 as demonstrators for the Cummins Engine Co. (Note that the step locations varied or changed over time.) Serial numbers 12184, 12186 and 12188 were subsequently sold to Republic Steel, while 12185 and 12187 went to the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad as 254 and 253, and in 1949 they became Louisiana Southern 505 and 504. Both of these units were scrapped at Chatham Iron and Metal in Savannah, Georgia. |
| Photo Date: |
4/29/1937 Upload Date: 6/11/2018 4:36:54 PM |
| Location: |
Erie, PA |
| Author: |
unknown |
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| Locomotives: |
NEO 253(80Tonner) LSO 504(80Tonner) LSO 505(80Tonner) NEO 254(80Tonner) |
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Louisiana Southern 80-ton GE 504 |
| Description: |
Louisiana Southern 80-ton GE 504 was parked in the railroad’s little yard at 6225 St. Claude Avenue, between St. Maurice Ave. (on the right) and Tricou St. The locomotive (serial no. 12187) had been built in November 1937 as a demonstrator for the Cummins Engine Co. and was sold to the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad as their 253 in April 1939. The NEO sold it to the Louisiana Southern on 21 October 1949 for $35,000 and it was eventually scrapped at Chatham Iron & Metal in Savannah, Georgia around 1970. |
| Photo Date: |
7/2/1966 Upload Date: 5/19/2020 1:05:59 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
J.G. LACHAUSSEE |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
LSO 504(80Tonner) |
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