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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2022 2:03 am 

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This roster list maybe helpfull

http://www.solrswat.ca/1_EquipmentRoste ... -36999.htm


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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:12 am 

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Interesting list for sure - is that current, production, or what?

Verizon lets me pull it up on my phone, but Google blows it up on a DNS error
"DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN".

I'm guessing that's an older or production list as some of the local ones that I personally familiar with I know are scrapped. But at least two happy stories there with the 23-ton 'boxcab' and the red 25-ton that was at Ellwood Steel (Irvine plant) are up at Lake Shore in North East, PA. I've had the pleasure of running the little 25-tonner myself. They have quite the operable critter collection now, as well as the GE locomotive collection.


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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 9:42 am 

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This 1948 unit, former Iroquois Construction, is at the Niagara Railway Museum and operating.
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https://nfrm.ca/equiplist.php

This 1944 unit #27811, former US Navy and Diamond Match, is at the volunteer tourist railroad in Folsom, CA in this John Barnhill picture.
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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:32 am 

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#31561, built April 1952 for Hartford Electric Light Co. (HELCo.), donated by Northeast Utilities to Railroad Museum of New England, Thomaston, CT. Restored 2020-2021. Unit has about 600 original hours on it; equipped with 14-EL automatic brakes.

Howard P.

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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 7:20 pm 

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Another Connecticut example is the Model 25-ton at the Shore Line Trolley Museum. It is their first Diesel-electric locomotive. It is a switcher to be used when the power goes off in front of a hurricane or other storms.

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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:14 am 

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We've got one. Other than it's grey, all I know about it is it was previously in Ohio and Florida. It works reliably to haul the 1225 out of the shed and assemble passenger trains, and was used yesterday to give short caboose rides in our yard during the annual city festival.

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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:22 pm 

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Our 25 tonner at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum is b/n 31789 5/53. We are the 5th owner and were responsible for the conversion to 62.5" gauge. It is numbered PTM 89 from its GE serial. 89 serves a vital role at PTM as shop switcher and rescue loco. We acquired it for $1 in 2008 and placed it in service in June 2013.


A picture being worth a thousand words, here's what 89 looks like. Since we use it to move around trolley cars, the knuckle couplers were set aside and replaced with pockets (at multiple heights) for a tow bar. The tow bar is hung conveniently on the side of the locomotive.

And yes, we do store it indoors.

/s/ Larry
Lawrence G. Lovejoy, P.E.


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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 3:00 pm 

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P&W's former shop switcher/display engine (No. 150) that had been in Worcester for decades is now at the Seashore Trolley Museum, having made it there what, a year ago?

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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:16 pm 

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Oklahoma Railway Museum has former MKT #400, the only GE 25 ton purchased by MKT.

Built 1950 for MKT, used at their Denison, TX tie treatment plant. Sold with the plant to WJ Smith Preserving Co. Eventually acquired by Allen Ritchey, Inc. for use at Martindale Feed Mill in Valley View, TX (located next to I-35). Stored as redundant and then purchased by Oklahoma Railway Museum in 2018. At some point the prime mover was replaced by a semitruck engine, which is now badly seized from the time being stored outdoors.


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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2022 6:39 pm 

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Ex- Hartford Electric Light Co. (possibly HElCo #2) GE 25 tonner, C/N 33375, B 50/50 1GE763, built June 1958. She was purchased for the Middletown power plant, then in 1966/1967 she was transferred to the Millstone Nuclear Plant in Watertown, Ct for plant construction and maintenance. The Museum purchased her in April 1997 and she became Ct Eastern RR Museum #1, `Lil Tugger'

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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2022 7:26 am 

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We are nearing completion of a total restoration and 3-foot gauge conversion of a GE 25 Ton unit for a tourist operation. We also have a couple of projects in the world on various other GE critters. This project is coming along very nicely and I will post more about it and the others soon.
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We are always on the lookout for small GE locomotives to purchase for future projects. If your organization has a surplus GE or other critter please let me know and maybe we can work out a deal.


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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 8:35 pm 

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You might be thinking of the one owned by Dupps, in Germantown, Ohio? They still use that on a regular basis to move loaded cars of machinery to interchange.

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A former Kansas City power still exist near Cincinnati at drum industries. I see it quite a bit. It hasn’t ran in a few years. I contact mchugh loco to see if they’d be interested in it. They recently re July one as narrow gauge.

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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:30 am 

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The Santa Clara River RR Society was gifted a 1941 23 Tonner. It was much modified over the years:
Diesel and generator replaced
Air brake controller replaced with SA 2 and SA9
Panel replaced
Among other things
I have been working on it for a number of years to get it running, but not there yet. Got a lot of help from members here with documentation


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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:43 am 

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Nope, I'm thinking on the one at Drumm industries in Ivorydale, OH. I see it all the time while working my yard job. If I could ever figure out how to post a quick photo on here, I'll take a map screen grab showing the overhead of it. It's exact coordinates are:

39.18199° N, 84.50206° W

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 Post subject: Re: General Electric 25 tonner roll call
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 2:30 am 

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Larry Lovejoy wrote:
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Our 25 tonner at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum is b/n 31789 5/53. We are the 5th owner and were responsible for the conversion to 62.5" gauge. It is numbered PTM 89 from its GE serial. 89 serves a vital role at PTM as shop switcher and rescue loco. We acquired it for $1 in 2008 and placed it in service in June 2013.


A picture being worth a thousand words, here's what 89 looks like. Since we use it to move around trolley cars, the knuckle couplers were set aside and replaced with pockets (at multiple heights) for a tow bar. The tow bar is hung conveniently on the side of the locomotive.

And yes, we do store it indoors.

/s/ Larry
Lawrence G. Lovejoy, P.E.


I would think indoor storage would be an example of the injunction provided by another poster to ask what you can do for locomotive as opposed to what it can do for you.

Nice to see the little critter safe from the elements.


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