The Walthers HO EMD SD75M, a six-axle road locomotive, is decorated for BNSF Ry. and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.

In 2010, Progress Rail, a Caterpillar subsidiary, acquired Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (EMD), one of the world’s original and largest manufacturers of diesel electric locomotives. The agreement ...

Use ZE an Incomplete Picture,” by Nicholas Little, Railway Age, Nov. 20, 2024, which was in response to my Jan. 3, 2024 ...

Hence, EMD engineers came up with an automatic transition. For any DC traction motor, whether the locomotive utilizes four or six motors, the point at which transition becomes necessary is ...

Core units for the rebuilds came from IC GP9, a lone IC GP18, MBTA GP9, RDG GP7 and UP GP7, GP9 and GP9B. In Spring 1979, the Clinchfield Railroad sent six GP7s to Paducah to be rebuilt to GP11s.

Yet in 1950, the smaller railroad purchased a single 1,500-hp EMD GP7 with a steam generator ... until eventually being traded in for newer locomotives. Upgraded and rebuilt with a chopped nose ...

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Prior to the merger in 2023, Canadian Pacific had been the lone holdout across Class I railroads in adding Tier 4-compliant locomotives, not purchasing new units for over a decade before the CPKC ...