AZebra Wrote:
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> I am pretty sure that it was at Great America in the late 1970s (but it could have been Magic Mountian in Southern California), but there was an actual industrial locomotive there. It was a GE 25 ton end cab or similar small switch locomotive. Maybe for construction of the "railroad", or to cover the trains until the Buzz'in Half Dozen Detroit Diesel Steamers arrived?

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This search [Great America Amusement park trains GE 25 ton] [www.google.com] found this item "Crown locomotives at Busch Gardens, Tampa - Notice ..." about 50% down the page. That item includes this text, "Six Flags not only killed steam at SFOG, but has turned the remaining Harpur at Astroworld to crap (with a hideous Six Flags logo on the cab, and a heavily-mutilated stack)...if they even use it! Recently, I hear they are getting rid of the Magic Mountain 'Grand Centennial' trains; the John Bull and the GE 25-Ton which I believe came from a Kaiser plant somewhere down that ways.", about 30% down the page.

My search for [magic mountain ge 25 ton] [www.google.com] turned up this item: "Magic Mountain Pics - Disney Railroads Discussion B...", about 20% down the page.

Pacific News' November 1974 issue [PDF] has a multi-page article, with photos, about the "Narrow Gauge in the Tehachapis" (beginning on page 10), but the article barely mentions the 25-ton GE. Other APers may also want to take a look at this magazine's articles about BART, Muni, etc., from a time when today's yesteryear was now.