Before Diesel engines had been perfected in the early 1900s many companies chose to use the gasoline engine for rail motive power. The first GE Locomotive was a series of four-axle (B-B) boxcab gasoline-electric machines closely related to their doodlebugs a line of self-propelled passenger cars built in the early 1900s.One of their first major customers was the Minneapolis St.
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