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The EMD FL9 was a dual-power locomotive, capable of operating both as a conventional diesel-electric locomotive and as a third rail electric locomotive, built between October 1956 and November 1960 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as a custom order for the New York, New Haven and Hartford...
Preserved EMD E5 at Illinois Railway Museum The EMD E5 was a 2,000 hp, A1A-A1A passenger train-hauling diesel locomotive manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois, and produced exclusively for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (The Burlington Route) during 1940 and 1941.
EMD can lay claim to being the company that ended the dominion of the steam locomotive on the world's railroads, by both producing high-quality, reliable locomotives, and just as importantly (maybe more so) knowing how to sell them.
EMD also built a turbocharged V20 that produced 3600 hp for the SD45, but that was their first and last 20-cylinder engine.
The 1960s saw EMD consolidate their position as the dominant locomotive builder in the USA; new, high power locomotives, like the 3000 horsepower (2.2 MW) EMD SD40 and the 3600 horsepower (2.7 MW) EMD SD45 V20 were produced and proved highly successful.
By the end of the 1930s, EMD had a diesel engine powerful and reliable enough for road locomotive use; the new technology found its first uses in glittering prow-nosed passenger locomotives, but EMD's eye was on the meat - freight service.
In 1959, however, GE's patience with Alco was running thin; they appeared unable to compete with EMD, and in that year GE announced that it was going to enter the road locomotive field itself.
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By the end of the 1930s, EMD had a diesel engine powerful and reliable enough for road locomotive use; the new technology found its first uses in glittering prow-nosed passenger locomotives, but EMD's eye was on the meat – freight service.
The war, however, was in the end a godsend for EMD; while it was allowed to continue to develop the diesel locomotive and to sell it to railroads, its competitors in the locomotive industry – principally the American Locomotive Company (Alco) and the Baldwin Locomotive Works – were prohibited from any work with diesel locomotives.
Most of these were sales of its freight F-Unit platform – the EMD F3 and later EMD F7 – but their passenger E-Unit locomotives just as quickly replaced their steam counterparts with shiny new EMD E7 and later EMD E8 locomotives.
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EMD E2 3-unit set SF-1, SF-2 and SF-3 took over.
The train was then refurbished by the UP, renumbered LA-4 and placed on City of Los Angeles service, bumping M-10002 to the City of Portland, which in turn displaced M-10001.
Also, railroad programs to upgrade SD40s and 45s to -2 standards are generally not included, since these upgrades are/were usually done in railroad shops in the course of normal overhauls.
Electromotive Division (EMD): EMD was formed by the 1930 purchase (by GM) of railcar builder Electro Motive Corporation (EMC) and engine builder Winton Engine.
When EMD refused to modify its F40PH-2C design to suit MBTA's needs, MK built its first new locomotives, near clones of EMD F40PH-2C.
