GE 44-ton Switcher - Preserved Examples

Preserved Examples

United States

• Arcade and Attica Railroad in Arcade, NY shifted all operations to diesel in 1941 with the purchase of 44ton No110. Six years later a wreck forced them to send the engine back to Erie for repairs. At that time they purchased a second engine (ARA No 111) and scrapped their last remaining backup steam engine. ARA110 today is a static display while ARA111 remains operational for freight duties, playing second string to 65-ton ARA 112.
• The Media:The Railway Museum of San Angelo in San Angelo, TX displays the GE 44 ton repainted and lettered in Santa Fe Tiger Strips as number 461 was formerly the U.S. Air Force Number 31879 out of Carswell Air Force Base. Build date February 1953
• The Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California is the home of Quincy Railroad 3 . No. 3 was leased by the Virginia and Truckee Railroad in Virginia City, Nevada in 2002 when it's 2 steam locomotives went down for restoration. It was sent back when the railroad got another GE switcher. This 44 ton engine replaced steam power on this shortline railroad. The WPRM is also home to Quincy 4, an Alco S1 switcher that replaced QRR 3. The WPRM recently received a donation of 44 tonner Tidewater Southern 735.
• The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad in Duluth, MN uses a loco formally used at the Lac de Flambeau paper mill.
• The Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum in Parrish, Florida owns and operates former US Navy 65-00345, originally assigned to NAS Jacksonville.
• The California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento runs the Sacramento Southern Railroad Number 1240, formerly the U.S. Air Force Number 1240 out of McClellan Air Force Base.
• The Southeastern Railway Museum at Duluth, Georgia has the former New York, Ontario and Western Railway #104(pictured), and Hartwell Railway #2
• The Western Railway Museum near Suisun, CA. is the home of Sacramento Northern 146.
• The Danbury Railway Museum in Danbury, CT has two of these locos one under restoration (ex New Haven Railroad) and one currently operational (ex Union Pacific)
• The Heber Valley Railroad in Heber City, UT has one of these in operation giving daily tourist trips down Provo Canyon in Utah
• The Burlington Junction Railroad of Burlington, IA owns an ex-Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad 44 tonner that operates about once a month in West Burlington, IA
• The Southern Michigan Railroad Society in Clinton, MI operates former Western Maryland Railway unit #75 on tourist trips between Clinton, Tecumseh, and Raisin Center along the former Jacksonburgh and Palmyra Railroad.
• The Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville, IN owns former Nickel Plate Road 44T #91
• The Charlotte Southern in Charlotte, MI. operates the last 44 ton GE ever built. Ex-Danville & Mount Morris #1. List in the Diesel Spotters Guide (Kalmbach Publishing).
• The Toledo, Lake Erie, and Western owns one 44-tonner, #1, Ex-Dundee Cement 951901, and née-Ann Arbor Railroad #1. Currently, it is sitting in its yard in Grand Rapids, Ohio, along with a Baldwin 0-6-0 steam locomotive. Both are currently being restored.
• The Yuma Valley Railway (located in Yuma, AZ, currently not operating) owns 2 44-ton locomotives, respectively built in 1943 for the United States Marine Corps and in 1953.
• The Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savannah, Georgia acquired the ex-B&M No. 119 from the Claremont Concord Railroad in 2010.
• The Strasburg Rail Road in Pennsylvania, an excursion line with historic equipment, acquired former Pennsylvania Railroad 44-tonner 9331 in 1966 after leasing it from the PRR since 1961. It remains on the railroad but is currently considered retired after being replaced by an SW8 acquired in 2009.
• The Timber Heritage Association in Samoa California (near Eureka, Humboldt County) owns the Arcata and Mad River #101, a 44 tonner which used to haul lumber loads from the Korbel Mill, to Eureka, on the now torn up Arcata and Mad River railroad and the non operational Northwestern Pacific railroad. This unit is operational, and is part of the plan for a new tourist railroad around Humboldt bay, called the Humboldt Bay Scenic Railroad.
• The Walkersville Southern Railroad in Maryland has a privately-owned ex-Pennsylvania Railroad 44-tonner, 9339, acquired from the South Carolina Railroad Museum in 2011.

Canada

• Southern Prairie Railway in Ogema, Saskatchewan, Canada has purchased unit #15 from Conway Scenic Railway in New Hampshire and intends to use the 1945 44-tonner to offer tourist trips down the Red Coat Line in Southern Saskatchewan.

Sweden

• The two 44-tonners from the ironworks in Hofors and Domnarvet is preserved by a railway society in Falun, Dalarna.

Australia

• 7921 which was sold to the Commonwealth Railways as DE90 is preserved by the NSWRTM at Thrilmere and renumbered as 7921.

• DE91 which was 7922 with the NSWGR which was sold to the Commonwealth Railways is preserved at the NRM Port Adelaide in a weathered condition on static display in CR Maroon and Silver