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Shortline savior

By Brian Schmidt | July 28, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Red-and-white diesel switcher locomotives in a road crossing

Shortline savior

North Carolina’s Laurinburg & Southern was a GE 70-tonner bastion in the Southeast. A pair works Dixie Guano in Laurinburg in September 1984. The GE small locomotive line enabled great savings for short lines that adopted them, keeping some of them running for years longer than if powered by steam. Jim Wrinn photo

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