An unnumbered Avtex (formerly American Viscose) GE 44-tonner stands in open space in Lewistown, PA. Why 44 tons? As the railroads argued that firemen's jobs in the new diesels were not necessary, in 1937, the unions conceded the point for diesels weighing less than 90,000 pounds. GE, along with several other industrial locomotive manufacturers, responded with the 44-ton model, the largest allowable one-man crew locomotive.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
