The GE U50 was an eight-axle, 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Rail. They were twin-engined locomotives, combining two 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) diesel engines. The U50 rode on four two-axle trucks, grouped in pairs linked by span bolsters, giving a wheel arrangement of B+B-B+B.

2024年12月31日 · The U50C was General Electric's successor to its earlier U50 design of 1963. As Brian Solomon notes in his book, "GE Locomotives," improvements with the 7FDL prime mover enabled the company to offer this high horsepower variant with 12-cylinder power plants in place of the standard 16.

2025年1月1日 · The U50 was an experimental, high-horsepower diesel locomotive developed by General Electric during the early 1960s for Union Pacific.

The GE U50 was an eight-axle, 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Rail. They were twin-engine locomotives, combining two 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) diesel engines. A pair of 5,000 hp locomotives at the UP facilities at North Platte, Nebraska. On the left, GE U50D No. 53, on the right EMD DDA35 No. 82.

There was also the experimental U50 and U50C, testbed models manufactured for Union Pacific that boasted 5,000 horsepower but a host of problems. Future designs, like the U30B, U30C, U33C, and others sold saw increasingly higher sales and design improvements as GE engineers made tweaks recommended by the industry.

2013年1月24日 · Another active thread on this forum about UP’s GTELs and U50’s led me to wonder about the “GE 50 series” unusual bus-like cab configuration. Was this meant to be a quantum leap forward in cab design or was it used due to the fact that the locomotive’s dual engine/alternators took up so much frame space that there was no room for a ...

2014年2月12日 · In Essence, the U50 was machinery of two U25Bs installed in a common carbody. Height dimensions are from top of railhead. Diesel & Electric Locomotive Specifications, 1981, by F. K. Hudson.

2019年10月17日 · The U50 was built in response to the Union Pacific Railroad's requirement, issued in the early 1960s, for a 15,000 hp (11,200 kW) 3-unit locomotive intended to replace the turbines. The design was effectively two U25B locomotives on a single frame; each diesel engine and generator powered only the two trucks at the same end.

The GE U50C was a 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems. Each was powered by two 2,500 hp (1,860 kW) diesel engines. Forty were built between November 1969 and November 1971 solely …

The GE U50C was a 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems. Each was powered by two 2,500 hp (1,860 kW) diesel engines. [1] 40 were built between November 1969 and November 1971 solely …