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12/29/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: NEO
Model:GE 80TonnerBuilt As:NEO 253 (80Tonner)
Serial Number:12187Order No:
Frame Number: Built:11/1937
Notes:ex-Cummins demonstrator
Other locos with this serial:  NEO 253(80Tonner) LSO 504(80Tonner)
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80-ton GE
Title:  80-ton GE
Description:  This General Electric drawing from May 1937 illustrates the basic appearance for 80-tonner serial numbers 12184-12188, which were buil} 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 agd 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 Soushern 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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