The EMD GP7 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between October 1949 and May 1954. [2] The GP7 was the first EMD road locomotive to use a hood unit design instead of a car-body design.

The following is a list of locomotives produced by the Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC), and its successors General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD) and Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD). EMC participated in the construction of a number of motorized railcars, integrated streamliner trainsets, and experimental locomotives in the 1930s.

The EMD GP40 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between November 1965 and December 1971. It has an EMD 645E3 16- cylinder engine generating 3,000 hp (2,240 kW).

EMD GP (General Purpose) Locomotives was a four axle road switcher that was in production from 1949 to 2001. Below is a list of some of the most notable GP locomotives built by Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. starting from 1949 all the way up to 2001.

2025年2月20日 · The GP7 witnessed more than twice the sales of Alco's RS3, the only other road-switcher with comparable success. Its history began in 1948 when EMD unveiled its so-called "Branch Line" locomotive, the BL2. This interesting concept was a hybrid full width cab unit and road-switcher.

10 小时之前 · Check out the all-new ScaleTrains HO EMD GP40 diesel locomotive in our latest product review video. Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno shares a brief history of the four-axle road switcher and explains why Chicago & North Western 5525 is historically significant; points out the many prototype-specific details on the Rivet Counter line model; and demonstrates the sound and light ...

2024年6月18日 · The EMD GP30 is a 2,250 hp (1,680 kW) four-axle road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between July 1961 and November 1963. A total of 948 units were built for railroads in the United States and Canada (2 only), including 40 cabless B units for the Union Pacific Railroad.

2025年1月18日 · Both the GP38 and GP40 were fairly strong sellers, together accounting for more than 2,000 locomotives built. Only 23 GP39's were built, most for Chesapeake & Ohio. In 1972, EMD introduced an updated "Dash-2" series, replacing the GP38, GP39 and GP40 with the GP38-2, GP39-2 and GP40-2 respectively.

2023年11月14日 · With EMD’s GP20 ready to hit the road in the late 1950s, the company built a four-unit set of GP20s decked out in a silver and blue demonstrator scheme to test on various railroads. The results garnered interest by only eight railroads for 260 units, with over half the GP20s ordered by three railroads: Santa Fe; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy ...

The EMD GP30 is a 2,250 hp (1,680 kW) four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between July 1961 and November 1963. [2] A total of 948 units were built for railroads in the United States and Canada (2 only), including 40 cabless B units for the Union Pacific Railroad .