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Pioneer passenger diesel

By Angela Cotey | March 30, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

axle passenger diesels built in 1935. EMC had no factory of its own yet, so this one was assembled at General Electric’s plant at Erie, Pa. The Winton-engined pioneer is preserved at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.

General Electric

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Stephen Wagner says:

May 2, 2021 at 11:58 am

This looks very much like the locomotive that pulled the train I took from Budapest to Szeged in Hungary in the late summer of 1966.

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