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Power was provided by an EMD 645E 8-cylinder engine which generated 1,000 horsepower (750 kW). This locomotive was built on the same common frame as the EMD SW1500, giving it an overall length of 44 feet 8 inches (13.61 m). [1] Over one-third of SW1000 production went to the Burlington Northern Railroad. [1]
Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) - On static display at the Brookfield Public Library in Brookfield, Missouri (coordinates: 39°47'08.4"N 93°04'25.5"W) BUGX 1552 October 1955 SD9-3 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) Burlington Northern and Santa Fe ...
Both of the Northern Pacific's 2-6-6-2 classes were copies of GN designs, including their Belpaire fireboxes, a rarity on NP steam locomotives. NP 3015, last of the Class Z's, had a troubled existence, suffering a crown sheet failure at Kennedy, Washington , on Stampede Pass circa 1916, then later derailing on the Wallace Branch in Idaho in 1933.
1,000 hp (745 kW) EMC 1800 hp B-B: ... The SC and SW switchers were the first locomotives produced in EMC's new factory after its completion in 1936. ... Joule Series ...
On September 22, 1995, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway merged with the Burlington Northern to create the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. However, the merger was not official until December 31, 1996, when a common dispatching system was established, Santa Fe's non-union dispatchers were unionized and the implementation of Santa ...
Burlington Northern Railroad: 15 310–324 Cambria and Indiana Railroad: 2 15, 16 Chattahoochee Valley Railway: 1 101 Chicago Short Line Railroad: 2 30, 31 General Motors Electro-Motive Division: 9 106–114 Georgia Power: 5 1401–1402, 1405, 1503–1504 W.R. Grace Chemical 2 101, 102 Great Northern Railway: 10 200–209 Houston Belt and ...
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The EMD NW2 is a 1,000 hp (750 kW), B-B switcher locomotive manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois.From February 1939 to December 1949, EMD produced 1,145 NW2s: 1,121 for U.S. and 24 for Canadian railroads.