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. It eventually became surplus to the company's needs and they donated it to the

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at Pine Bluff, Arkansas on March 8, 2003. The 25-ton model was the smallest locomotive in the GE range in the 1940s and 50s. It was designed for the small industrial user. With and of tractive effort, it could pull half a dozen loaded cars on the level. Although the Arkansas nomination document asserts that "large

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would have used them for switching on light branch lines," standard freight cars of the time were up to 70 tons (64t) gross weight, or 17.5 tons (16t) per axle, so there was little need for 12.5 ton (11t) per axle locomotives on railroads, even on light branch lines, but GE built hundreds of them for industrial users. It was added to the

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in 2007.

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