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GE U36B
General Electric's U36B is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive. It was built to a B-B configuration, meaning that the locomotive rode on a pair of two-axle powered trucks.
History
Major purchasers of U36Bs were Auto-Train Corporation and Seaboard Coast Line, which hosted most Auto-Train Corp. traffic. In 1976 four U36Bs that were built by GE for Auto-Train Corporation, which earlier has purchased 13 earlier, were instead sold and delivered to Conrail due to Auto Train's financial difficulties. These units, built to Seaboard Coast Line specifications, were originally fitted with Blomberg trucks ; when Conrail purchased them, the railroad asked GE to replace the trucks with AAR type-B trucks instead.
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Last updated: 10-11-2005 21:01:26
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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