The Lake Shore Railway Museum in North East, Pennsylvania, has received a GE 80-ton switcher that was built in 1944 for the Genesee & Wyoming Railroad and also has an Ohio connection.
The locomotive was transported to the museum by flat car.
Once owned by a Lordstown steel company, the locomotive was later given to the Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation.
The Youngstown museum traded it to the Pennsylvania museum.
It was the first diesel-electric locomotive owned by G&W and also served as an industrial switcher for the Kinzua Dam project on the Allegheny River near Warren, Pennsylvania.
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