I have a query that I hope can be answered. Could a GE 50 tonner be modeled by putting a pair of 44 tonner trucks on a 45 tonner?
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Mike Kieran
Port Able Railway
I just do what the majority of the voices in my head vote on.
Here are some spotting features. I'll let you decide how many rivets you want to count.
https://www.thedieselshop.us/GE_45ton.HTML
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Just an observation that quite apart from the fact that not all GE 44 tonners look the same, there are many photos on the internet which are labeled as GE 44 tonners which are NOT GE 44 tonners - it is just the most familiar size of GE switcher to most people, and there is a close family resemblance to the heavier GE switchers until you start really noting the spotting features, which are many and shiftingly complex.
Dave Nelson
The East Troy Electric RR had a 44 tonner, when it was a full time freight RR.
https://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=534535
I did not post the picture, because of copyrights, but the link should be OK.
Mike.
My You Tube
This GE, one of several used at the steel plant where I worked, is an 80 tonner...
Apparently, they were built as 65 tonners, and re-ballasted to 80 tons.
Wayne