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	EMD's E Unit
		In June of 1937, the Baltimore and Ohio became one of the first railroads to place the EMD E unit passenger diesel in mainline service.
		In all, 1314 E units were sold, compared to only 297 Alco PAs.
		Es were occasionally regeared and used for freight service by some railroads.
	exotic.railfan.net /E.htm

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		EMD F7 BandO CONNECTION TRACK DIAMOND IS UNDER THE LEAD UNIT.
		THIS UNIT SUCCUMBED TO THE SCRAPPER IN 1991.
		'E' UNITS LOOK GOOD FROM ALMOST ANY ANGLE.
	www.morscher.com /rr/sort_78-78rr.htm

	MTH Electric Trains
		EMD built 92 E-6 A-units and 26 matching B-units before the war effort arrested production of all passenger diesels in 1942.
		There were six variations of the E-unit (the EA and E-1 through -5), none produced in large numbers, before EMD settled on a standardized passenger unit and began to produce the E-6 before the U.S. entered World War II.
		And because diesels did not have the pulling power of steam engines, these new units needed to be equipped to run in multi-unit lash-ups when more horsepower was needed to pull a long train.
	www.mth-railking.com /detail.asp?item=20-2453-1

	Motive Power
		Units were received in June of 1947 and placed into passenger service on WP's other passenger routes until the California Zephyr was ready for operations.
		E units wore both red or black nose striping during their passenger service.
		On passenger units the black roof paint terminated just behind the cab doors, usually culminating in a point on the center of the roof (although some were simply terminated straight across the roof).
	calzephyr.railfan.net /locos.html

	National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Laws.Adoption.com
		Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost when such payments are incurred by financial institutions operating military banking facilities outside the United States.
		Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to elevate manufacturing considerations during the EMD Phase in a specified manner.
		Prohibits the Secretary from: (1) testing the Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser transmitter and associated optics against an object in space during 1992 unless such testing is specifically authorized by law; or (2) classifying the acquisition costs and schedule for the A-(X) naval attack aircraft program at the special access classification level.
	www.laws.adoption.com /national_defense_authorization_act.php

	The Railroad Itself - Equipment, Installations, Motive Power
		EMD, Alco, Fairbanks Morse and Baldwin each produced streamlined freight and passenger locomotives.
		EMD's GP and SD types and the Alco RSC and Century models are still abundant, having logged millions of miles each.
		By 1960, freight cab units were no longer made.
	www.thortrains.com /realrai2.htm

	UP Streamliner
		The units, part of 69 EMD model E-9 units on Union Pacific, pulled such famous trains as the City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, City of San Francisco, City of St. Louis, and the Challenger.
		The last E-9 unit ever built by EMD was delivered to Union Pacific in 1964.
		Considered to be among the most graceful looking locomotives in American railroading, the sleek units evolved from the first Union Pacific streamlined locomotives back in 1934.
	www.uprr.com /aboutup/excurs/stream.shtml

	Notes on Detailing Boston & Maine Diesel Locomotives
		Units with 6 BL are not able to multiple with units 6 BLC, 24 RL, or 26L except as a trailing unit with independent brake bail-off not available or as a leading unit with some special hookup arrangements by shop personnel.
		Units 1535-1545 delivered with Alco 21 pin M.U. and were able to connect only to themselves or (if used in trailing position) 1505-1519.
		Units had old style Alco 21/12 pin M.U. system which featured dual M.U. sockets and would only multiple with themselves or 1505 - 1519, provided all moves were done from the dual-system RS-3.
	www.apocalypse.org /~jbvb/rr/bmrr/dieselde.html

	EMD E-class Diesel Locomotives
		The E-class units can be distinguished from their sister F-class units by their length (they house two motors vs. the F-class single motor), and by their three-axle trucks (F-class units have a two axle truck).
		EMD (Electromotive Div of GM) E class Diesel Locomotives
		This is one of EMD's E-class diesel locomotives, the E-7, in the attractive colors of the Atlantic Coast Line.
	www.toytrains1.com /eclass.htm

	Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. - Company
		AFR has considerable expertise in electronic materials and devices (EMD) and carbon materials (carbon fibers, fullerenes, diamond, advanced carbon sorbents).
		AFR then sells its first commercial units directly to its industrial partners and other industrial "early adopters".
		A comprehensive business plan is created, and when a technology/market combination demonstrates enough promise to exist profitably on its own, based upon initial customer responses and business plan analysis, a free-standing spin off firm, to make and sell products, is created.
	www.afrinc.com /company.htm

	KatyRailroad.org / M-K-T / Katy Diesel Engines
		The first passenger units ordered would be the EMD E-7 units for the streamlined Texas Special train in March of 1947.
		These units were numbered 1000 - 1005 and delivered in a solid gray paint scheme with an MKT herald on each side of the cab.
		More passenger units were ordered from Alco in 1949, these were the 2000 hp Alco PA1 numbered 151A and 151C.
	www.katyrailroad.org /diesels.htm

	Don Strack’s Print Publications
		A roster listing of each of the 6,515 locomotives (and their unit histories) owned or operated by Union Pacific Railroad during 1997, including the merged locomotive fleets of Southern Pacific and Chicago and North Western.
		A roster listing of each of the 6,429 locomotives (and their unit histories) owned or operated by Union Pacific Railroad during 1998, including the merged locomotive fleets of Southern Pacific, Cotton Belt, DandRGW, and Chicago and North Western.
		A expanded compilation of previously published magazine articles about UP�s EMD switcher fleet, from the NW2s to the most current MP15ACs, with additional material on Union Pacific�s ALCo, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse switchers, and yard slugs and other hump yard power.
	www.utahrails.net /donpub.php

	Alco versus EMD
		EMD�s success during the postwar decade was largely the result of an adaptive corporate culture that was transformed by EMD and GM executives to satisfy a larger and more predictable locomotive market.
		EMD ads initially stressed "super-production and super-transportation." By the late 1940s, the emphasis of the ads had shifted from "selling the concept of the diesel-electric to selling complete and total dieselization." EMD ads in the early 1950s continued to focus on the elimination of steam, but with the addition of statistical information.
		EMD was expanding both domestically and abroad, even though at least one financial analyst viewed the locomotive industry as "one of the least profitable ends of the capital goods business." It would seem unlikely, therefore, that Alco executives would choose to concentrate still further on the diesel locomotive industry.
	www.utahrails.net /loconotes/alco-v-emd.htm

	Surving E Unis List
		Units owned by leasing firms or dealers or painted no lettering have no roadname given.
		Units that don't stay in one place (i.e.
		Spencer NC Display 14172 9/51 6900 Museum ex SR 6900, nee SR 2923 NJT E8A URHS New Jersey Stored 18541 8/53 4326 ex NJT 4326, ex PC 4326, nee NYC 4083 NJT E8A URHS New Jersey Stored ??
	membrane.com /~elmer/rail/units/e_units.html

	Locomotive Database - ALCo PA1
		The PA series of A1A-A1A passenger locomitves are considered among railfans to be among the best looking diesel electrics of all time; it's long trucks and extended flat nose setting it apart from the shorter, rounder styling of the GM e's and f's.
		A 2,400 hp version was planned, though demand for carbody locomotives and long haul passenger services was very much in decline, and no units were ordered.
		The PAs ended their days operating freight services, to which their large, nose suspended General Electric traction motors were quite suitable; being capable of withstanding high overloads.
	www.auran.com /trainz/database/pa1.html

	American Diesel Locomotive Development
		EMD first produced the type E and type F locomotives, and they also made the NW and SW class switchers (shunters).
		This was rated at 3,000hp and replaced all the old F- classes and older E- classes.
		EMD bought a diesel engine builder known as Winton Engine Co. and they started making a 2-stroke diesel engine for locomotives.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /lexcie/us-loco-devel.htm

	Back
		Dual AC hi-rail units with dual power and dual sound $549.95
	www.heimburgerhouse.com /american_models/emd_e8.htm

	EMD ORDER NUMBERS
		EMD started producing these eqiupments en masse circa 1954.
		Previously, all types, be they switchers, passenger units, freight units, or road switchers, went into a common sequence.
		Railroads frequently put out "feelers" to all existing builders that they might be interested in doing business with and pick the one with the best terms, most generous financial terms, best delivery projections, or any other variable.
	community-2.webtv.net /ajkristopans/EMDORDERNUMBERS

	The Diesel Builders
		In 1937, EMD placed the first E units in service and then, in 1939, came out with the first F unit, the FT. And so began an incredible success story for EMD.
		GE, however, turned out to be a strong competitor and has not gone the way of EMD's other foes.
		Success with these units led to further diesel development, while the company continued to build super-power steam locomotives.
	exotic.railfan.net /builders.htm

	The Diesel Locomotive in the United States
		EMD, however, did not want to be just another diesel switch engine builder.
		Two units coupled together with multiple unit (MU) controls had a sum of four diesel engines producing a total tractive effort of almost 120,000 lbs; whereas the average tractive effort of a passenger steam locomotive in 1935 was 36,000 lbs.
		EMD and a handful of other companies who had only built diesel electric locomotives got to continue their production.
	utahrails.net /loconotes/coifman-locopaper.htm

	Colorado Railroad Museum - Golden, Colorado
		From the early EMC E units and giant GE-built gas turbines to the varied EMD SD40-2 fleet that moved transcontinental freight into the 1980s, are all covered.
		A complete unit by unit diesel roster for the beginning of dieselization in 1926 to the 1995 merger with Union Pacific.
		The most complete roster/pictorial book published to date, this two-volume set overs builders data and dispositions of each member of the western carrier's diesel-electric and turbine locomotive fleet as well as a varied selection of photographs detailing each model.
	www.crrm.org /train_books-d.html

	Brian's Rail Photography: CN Locomotives
		EMD GP38 and GP40 (CV, GTW, IC and WC)
		EMD SD40-2 (5364 - 5398 and 6000 - 6028)
	bswitzer.railfan.net /cn.html

	Center for Railroad Photography and Art
		Railroad Heritage No. 6 features Hill's work for EMD.
		If you have any doubt, listen to author Stephen E. Ambrose who saw crowds along the tracks while riding a Union Pacific steam train: "It was then I learned how America has lost her heart to steam-driven locomotives." And he might well have added details about the other aspects of railroads people find interesting.
		These respected publishers have realized that there is a market for quality railroad books, and that such works are important contributions to the growing literature of railroading.
	www.railphoto-art.org /journal.asp

	Railroading Online
		The list of surviving F units in North America.
		The list of surviving E units in North America.
		These pages are dedicated to Fairbanks Morse and their celebrating 100 years of engine technology back in 1993.
	www.railroadingonline.net

	CB&Q E Units
		Unit # 9925 -New Imron paint, new sheet metal, operating condition, last used Sept 03 - Price $95,000
		Unit # 9910 and # 9917- Both units run but have not been load tested Price- $70,000
		Unit # 9912- Refurbished cab, operating condition, last used Sept 03- Price $80,000
	www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com /new_page_160.htm

	MILWdata2
		Since then, these have been supplanted by stock EMD E units.
		(e) - mixed - lv Isabel 1.45 pm Trail City 4.00 pm - arr Mobridge 5.52 pm, Tu- Th- Sa.
		(e) - mixed - lv Belgrade Junction 12.25 pm - arr Belgrade 12.46 pm, m-w-f.
	www.northeast.railfan.net /classic/MILWdata2.html

	Herron Rail Video's Gallery of L&N Images
		In 1942, L&N purchased its first road diesels, several EMD E-6 units and assigned them to The Pan American and other passenger trains.
		If you'd like to see great action views of L&N's passenger units, get our video Reflections of the L&N. This is an action-packed tape that covers passenger and freight operations on L&N from 1940 to the mid 1970's
		It was the beginning of the end for steam on the L&N. This picture, taken from a company photograph at South Louisville Shops, is a stylized and colorized rendering.
	www.herronrail.com /ln.html

	American Flyer / AC Gilbert Compatible EMD E-8 from American Models
		Powered by two V-12 engines in each unit rated at 2250-H.P. Combining high horsepower with large fuel and water capacity made possible by using six wheel trucks made the E units the longest in service passenger locomotives, many still running today.
		The final standardized version of passenger locomotives made by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (EMD) was the E8 and E9 engines, virtually identical in appearance.
		American Flyer / AC Gilbert Compatible EMD E-8 from American Models
	www.americanmodels.com /locos/e-8.html

	Challenger Imports, Ltd.
		Now at long last and after seemingly never-ending delays, we have finally received the pre-production samples of all 23 versions of our long-announced 'E' unit project.
		The 'A' units from 18 of the 23 versions are here pictured.
		Originally intended to be displayed at the October Chicago show, unanticipated circumstances prevented our attendance.
	www.challengerimports.com

	Glossary of Railroad Terminology - Blake Bailey Law Firm Tyler, TX East Texas Personal Injury Lawyer
		E nd O f T rain unit (see also Caboose).
		A unit propelled by any form of energy, or a combination of such units operated from a single control, used in train or yard service.
		A highly greased track near the roundhouse or back shop where a newly rebuilt locomotive could be run in without going anywhere, and without calling an engine crew or pilot.
	www.bailey-law.com /rrterms.html

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