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Built by General Motors and General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania, this one thousand eight hundred horsepower locomotive was the first non-articulated, high-speed, mainline passenger locomotive on American railroads. It originally powered the B&O's Royal Blue passenger train, then entered service on the Alton Railroad in 1938 powering the Abraham Lincoln. General Motors, General Electric, and Hyman-Michaels Company donated it in 1958.
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