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EMD SW1200
BN 251, an EMD SW1200, works the yard in Eola, Illinois (just east of Aurora).
Type and origin
Power type
Diesel-electric
Builder
General Motors Electro-Motive Division,
General Motors Diesel, Canada
Model
SW1200
Build date
January 1954 – May 1966
Total produced
1,056
Specifications
Configuration:
• AAR
B-B
• UIC
Bo′Bo′
Gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge, Chile
5 ft (1,524 mm)(?), Panama
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge, Brazil
Prime mover
EMD 12-567C
Engine type
V12 diesel
Cylinders
12
Performance figures
Power output
1,200 hp (890 kW)
Career
Locale
North America, South America
Disposition
Many scrapped, many still in use
An EMD SW1200 is a four-axle diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and May 1966.[1] Power is provided by an EMD 567C 12-cylinder engine, which generates 1,200 horsepower (890 kW). Additional SW1200 production was completed by General Motors Diesel in Ontario, Canada, between September 1955 and June 1964.
737 examples of this locomotive model were built for U.S. railroads, 287 were built for Canadian railroads,[1] 4 were built for Brazilian railroads, 25 were built for a Chilean industrial firm, and 3 were built for the Panama Canal Railway.
^ abMarre, Louis A. (1995). Diesel locomotives : the first 50 years : a guide to diesels built before 1972. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Pub. Co. pp. 30–31. ISBN 0-89024-258-5. OCLC 34531120.
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cab of the earlier SW1200. The EMD 645-series diesel engine had a deeper crankcase and oil pan than the SW1200's EMD 567-series engine. The engine had...
"helper" unit to assist them in service. The LWT12 was essentially an EMDSW1200 switcher locomotive, suitably geared for high-speed passenger service...
engine. The 567C was subsequently installed on the SW9's successor, the SW1200. In addition to the single units produced, ten TR5 cow-calf paired sets...
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of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, United States. The railroad owns two EMDSW1200 locomotives of which one is active. Number 19 is leased by Evraz company...
been given the number D-3. In November 2016, the railroad acquired an EMDSW1200 from Evraz, numbered 3540. 2020 saw the acquisition of a second bay-window...
locomotive, EMDSW1200, Soo Line 2121, was used until 1996. Since then the motive power was FEVR 1219 (née CNW 1219, CNW 319) another EMDSW1200, built in...
its successors General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD) and Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD). EMC participated in the construction of a number of motorized...
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diesels constructed by GM-EMD in September 1960. The cab and forward is styled similarly to that of the SW7, SW9 or SW1200 with a long sloping hood and...
in 1949 by the Budd Company. Along with the 3 passenger cars, 1953 built EMD E8, Southern Railway 6914, is undergoing restoration as well. Other projects...
High School.[citation needed] Eastside Freight Railroad once operated an EMDSW1200 locomotive now numbered MSN 109 built in 1963 for the Missouri Pacific...
Pacific (LST&T) #105 EMDSW1200 1957 ? 1987 Jackson Street Roundhouse Operational Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe #2627 (MNTX #454) EMD CF7 1946 2015 2020...
both of their remaining GM-EMD SW1200s and gasoline-powered Davenport 35-ton switcher. A third former Missouri Pacific SW1200, #1161 was eventually purchased...
consists of the following. Almost all locomotives were manufactured by EMD between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Surface Transportation Board, GENESEE...
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