• Maine Central Railroad began operating diesel locomotives in 1935, and had retired all steam locomotives by 1954. That time interval was a joint operating...
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    its practice of putting the full "Maine Central" name on the long hoods of MEC locomotives. Instead, the locomotives would wear the "Guilford Rail System"...
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    EMD GP38 (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    Tuckahoe, New Jersey. List of GM-EMD locomotives List of GMD Locomotives Bachand, Jean-Denis. "EMD GP38". The Diesel Shop. Retrieved 18 July 2021. Foster...
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    Lima Locomotive Works (LLW) was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company's name is derived...
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    GE U18B (category Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States)
    2022-03-25. "Maine Central Roster". trainweb.org. Retrieved 2022-03-25. Miller, T. C. B. (September 1963). "Maintenance of Diesel Electric Locomotives in Service"...
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    GMD SD40-2F (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    nicknamed "Red Barns" by railfans. The locomotives are numbered 9000-9024. These were the only new locomotives to be delivered to the CPR in the "Action...
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    The EMD SD70 is a series of diesel-electric locomotives produced by the US company Electro-Motive Diesel. This locomotive family is an extension and improvement...
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  • first diesel-electric locomotives appeared on the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1925 and on the New York Central in 1927. Moving forward, diesel locomotives...
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    Maine Central Railroad Class W locomotives were intended for heavy freight service. They were of 2-8-0 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or "1'D"...
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    class N 4-6-0 locomotives beginning in 1907. Class C locomotives pulled named passenger trains until replacement by diesel locomotives after World War...
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  • Maine Central Railroad Class O locomotives were originally intended for heavy freight service. They were of 4-6-0 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation...
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    EMD GP35 (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between July 1963 and December 1965 and by General Motors Diesel between...
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    steam locomotives, but struggled to compete when demand switched to diesel locomotives. Baldwin produced the last of its 70,000-plus locomotives in 1951...
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    FM P-12-42 (category Electro-diesel locomotives)
    "Boston & Maine Passenger Equipment after 1940". Retrieved March 29, 2009. "Fairbanks-Morse 38D8 Diesel Engine". PSRM Diesel Locomotives. Archived from...
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    EMD FL9 (category Electro-diesel locomotives)
    "New Haven"). The locomotives were designed to allow diesel powered trains to enter Grand Central Terminal, where non-electric locomotives are forbidden....
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  • modern steam locomotives through 1945. As less fortunate railroads began replacing their worn-out steam power with modern diesel locomotives, BAR initially...
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    earlier class W 2-8-0 locomotives beginning in 1914. They were the largest and most modern steam freight locomotives built for Maine Central; although former...
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    EMD SD40-2 (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    The EMD SD40-2 is a 3,000-horsepower (2,200 kW) C-C diesel–electric locomotive built by EMD from 1972 to 1989. The SD40-2 was introduced in January 1972...
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    ALCO S-1 and S-3 (category Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States)
    (490 kW) diesel-electric switcher locomotives produced by ALCO and their Canadian subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW). The two locomotives differed...
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    EMD GP18 (category Diesel–electric locomotives of Brazil)
    The EMD GP18 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division between December 1959 and November 1963. Power was...
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    EMD SW1 (category Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States)
    The EMD SW1 is a 600-horsepower (450 kW) diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Corporation (later Division) between...
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    Camelback locomotives due to these concerns; such a ban was never issued. There are five known Camelback locomotives to survive today: Central Railroad...
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    ALCO HH series (category Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States)
    The ALCO HH series was an early set of diesel switcher locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York between 1931...
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  • classification. American Locomotive Company (ALCO) began building more powerful yard locomotives for Maine Central in 1909. Twenty locomotives numbered 161 through...
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  • bankruptcy the B&M reorganized. It rebuilt its existing fleet of locomotives, leased new locomotives and rolling stock and secured funds for upgrading its track...
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    Baldwin RP-210 (category Electro-diesel locomotives)
    passenger locomotive market, but only three of the low-slung diesel-hydraulic units were produced. The first RP-210 was built for the New York Central Railroad...
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    ALCO DL-109 (category Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States)
    DL-109 was one of six models of A1A-A1A diesel locomotives built to haul passenger trains by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between December, 1939...
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    EMD GP7 (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    GP7 is a four-axle (B-B) diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between October 1949 and...
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    EMD GP38-2 (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    The EMD GP38-2 is an American four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division. Part of the EMD Dash 2 line, the GP38-2...
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    EMD F7 (category General Motors Diesel locomotives)
    The EMD F7 is a model of 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW) diesel-electric locomotive produced between February 1949 and December 1953 by the Electro-Motive...
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