GE 110-ton switcher

The GE 110-ton switcher is a diesel-electric switching locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems for light switching duties. It was a B-B design for standard gauge track, rated at 110 short tons, and was powered by two Cummins diesel engines. Production ran from December 1943 to February 1974, and the design carried on as the SL-110 from 1974 to 1985. A production roster compiled from builder records shows that its buyers were industrial users rather than main-line railroads: steel works, electric utilities and a chemical firm in the United States, and large orders from steel makers in Italy, Belgium, Mexico and Argentina, the Argentine units being listed as 66-inch gauge. The first unit on the roster went to the National Supply Company in December 1943, and the last batch, six units for Cockerill Steel in Belgium, was delivered between November 1973 and February 1974.