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The Erie plant that built locomotives for a century
Lawrence Park, Erie County, Pennsylvania
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General Electric put a works here in 1907 and built the company town of Lawrence Park around it, and for most of a century Erie made the diesel electric locomotives that pulled American freight. Employment ran into the tens of thousands and is now a fraction of that. Wabtec owns it and it still turns out locomotives, which is more than most American industrial towns of this size can say.
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