What?? EMD assem at GE??

Gee, does that make it the first "Erie-Built"?

That doesn't sound right. EMD had their own factory producing by 1936 and the SC1's were built after that.

 

EMD/EMC may have bought GE electrical equipment previously before they made their own, and some of the early EMC railcars might have been assembled at Erie.

Nope, the video is indeed correct. The VERY FIRST SC (Six hundred HP, Cast underframe) model was "assembled" at the GE Erie plant in March of 1935 (apparently the big, new McCook plant was not quit ready yet). The unit was Lackawanna #426, which eventually went to the Patapsco & Back Rivers RR as their #106, and still exists to this day.

The FIRST locomotive completed at the EMC new McCook factory, was SC #2301 for the AT&SF Rwy, and was christened on May 20, 1936.

Thanks HotWater, I figured you would have the details on that! This looks like it: