RailPictures.Net Photo: EMD 1976 Electro Motive Division (EMD) EMD GM10B at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania by Doug Lilly

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Locomotive Details

Location/Date of Photo

� Electro Motive Division (EMD) (more..)
� EMD GM10B (more..)

� Unknown
� Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA (more..)
� May 20, 1978

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Photographer

� EMD 1976 (more..)
� Unknown

� Doug Lilly (more..)
� Contact Photographer � Photographer Profile

Remarks & Notes

One of a Kind�..Two of Them!

EMD�s two demonstration/test bed electric freight locomotives rest outside of Conrail/Amtrak�s engine service facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Both the 10,000 hp GM10B and the 6,000 hp GM6C were six-axle units, but the B-B-B GM10B rode on ASEA four wheel trucks, while the C-C GM6C had two EMD Flexicoil six-wheel trucks. The energy economics of the early 80�s lead Conrail to the decision that total dieselization was the best solution to their future needs, and both units were sent back to EMD and subsequently scrapper.

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