More archives digging today: In 1992, one of many visits to the GE Transportation System's facility in Erie, PA, resulted in being shown (and having posed) the GE Coal Fueled C39-8CF, 609. The uni... (more)
On a snowy March 18, 1993, General Electric has readied a 'new' coal-sludge-fueled C39-8 for testing on Norfolk Southern. It and another GE test unit and passenger test car were placed on the NS ... (more)
General Electric, Norfolk Southern and other interested parties teamed up in 1992 to unveil a coal sludge fueled C39-8CF locomotive. On July 27, 1992, the Demo was pulled onto the East Erie Comme... (more)