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Petaluma Trolley has a restored April 1948 GE 25 Ton locomotive, serial number 29354, operating in it's yard at Copeland and Washington Streets in Petaluma California. This locomotive carries Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad No. 5, continuing the P&SR's Diesel engine numbering sequence. This engine is lettered for Petaluma Trolley, as well as for the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad. Petaluma Trolley is a railway museum whose mission is to preserve and interpret to the public and it's members the rights of way, structures, rolling stock, arts and traditions of the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad. The P&SR ran electric passenger service from 1904 until 1932. Their best year was 1912, when they carried 250,000 passengers. The P&SR electric feight service ran from 1904 until 1946 and continued with GE 44 Ton Diesel Electric locomotives until 1976. The P&SR operated two sternwheel steamboats, connecting the railroad at Petaluma with the rest of the world in San Francisco. These boats were run continuously from 1904 until 1950. This 25 Ton GE engine was last owned by Murphy Contractors and operated by the Central New England Railroad in West Hartford, Conneticut. While working the CNE, on one of their short lines, it switched a 4 state Home Depot warehouse. The engineer and conductor that ran it on the CNE told me, "You are going to be amazed at how much guts this little guy has." It has proven to be a very smooth and powerful unit, a very willing piece of equipment. I have taken some photos of the little loco if we can figure out how to show them.
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