Cecil the Diesel

Cecil the Diesel is a 1941 GE 45-tonner built in said year for the U.S. Navy as their number 7320. He has just two powered axles and connecting rods, just like a steam locomotive. The rods transfer driving force from a driving axle to an adjacent unpowered axle. He was used by a contractor to build the Ellwood Ordnance Plant in Ohio during World War 2. After the war, he was transferred to the United States Army. Built in an era when steam locomotives were still being produced in vast quantities, Cecil was used to make up trains in railroad yards and switch cars in and out of loading tracks. He only has 300 horsepower and cannot pull very many cars. In early 1956, Cecil was transferred to the U.S. Navy and was moved to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton. After many faithful years of service, he was retired in 1976 and moved to the Northwest Railway Museum. He is their child membership level mascot.