by Allen Hazen
It's not, I guess, REALLY my favorite, but what about the 50-ton end-cab switcher? The one that looks like the runt from a litter of 70-tonners. I grew up in New York City, so there's a place for it in my heart!
The New York Subway system has a fleet of them. Some have special exhaust-processing equipment (I think it's in the huge box on the platform in front of the hood) allowing them to be used for extended times in tunnels: ride the subway after midnight and you'll often see one on a work train. They're tiny by the standards of mainline diesels, but have unmistakeable GE details (start by looking at the arrangement of windows on the side of the cab!). Now that there is no longer freight service on the ex-NYC (PC, Conrail) West Side line, these and the Amtrak and Metro North P32 dual mode Genesis types are the only GE locomotives that regularly operate on Manhattan Island!
The New York Subway system has a fleet of them. Some have special exhaust-processing equipment (I think it's in the huge box on the platform in front of the hood) allowing them to be used for extended times in tunnels: ride the subway after midnight and you'll often see one on a work train. They're tiny by the standards of mainline diesels, but have unmistakeable GE details (start by looking at the arrangement of windows on the side of the cab!). Now that there is no longer freight service on the ex-NYC (PC, Conrail) West Side line, these and the Amtrak and Metro North P32 dual mode Genesis types are the only GE locomotives that regularly operate on Manhattan Island!