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The U34CH is a 3,600 hp (2,700 kW) passenger diesel locomotive built by General Electric between 1970 and 1973. In total, 33 U34CH units were built; 32 were built for the New Jersey Department of Transportation and operated by the Erie Lackawanna Railway and, later, Conrail, with the last unit coming as a later rebuild of a GE U30C for the New York MTA.
The Erie Lackawanna Railway was formed on March 1, 1968, as a subsidiary of Dereco, the holding company of the Norfolk and Western Railway, which had bought the railroad. On April 1, the assets were transferred as a condition of the proposed but never-consummated merger between the N&W and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway .
Railroad Quantity Numbers Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: 25 8500-8524 Burlington Northern Railroad: 39 5725-5763 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: 4 8000-8003 Delaware and Hudson Railway: 9 754-762 Erie Lackawanna Railway: 15 3301-3315 Great Northern Railway: 15 2530–2544 to Burlington Northern 5700-5714
Locomotive Build date Model Former operators Retire date Disposition and location Notes References 33107 Erie Lackawanna 3607 June 1967 SD45 Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) Conrail (CR) - National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri [34] [35] 31598 Great Northern 400: May 1966 SD45 Great Northern Railway; Burlington Northern Railroad ...
4109 painted in heritage Central Railroad of New Jersey scheme. EMD GP40PH-2B: 4200–4219 1965–1969 1993–1994 19 Ex-Penn Central. 4208 painted in Conrail heritage paint scheme. 4210 painted in Erie Railroad heritage paint scheme. 4219 was rebuilt from GP40PH-2A 4148, which was damaged in 1996. [1] EMD F40PH-2CAT: 4119, 4120 1981 2
Railroad Quantity Numbers Notes Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: 100 8700-8799 8700-8769 rebuilt to SF30C's in 1985, C30-7 specs and renumbered 9500-9569 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: 4 5800-5803 Clinchfield Railroad: 7 3600-3606 to Seaboard Coast Line 2125-2131 after traded for SCL SD45 2438-2044 Erie Lackawanna ...
Finally, Shoemaker sought and won a merger agreement with the Erie Railroad, the DL&W's longtime rival (and closest geographical competitor), forming the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. The merger was formally consummated on October 17, 1960. Shoemaker drew much criticism for it, and would even second-guess himself after he had retired from railroading.
Erie Railroad prospered throughout the mid-1950s, but their profits were simultaneously on a decline. The company's 1957 income was half of that of 1956; by 1958 and 1959, Erie Railroad posted large deficits. The Erie's financial losses resulted in them entering negotiations to merge with the nearby Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.