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The following is a list of locomotives produced by General Motors Diesel (GMD), and its corporate successor Electro-Motive Canada (EMC). The NF-110 and NF-210 locomotive models were narrow gauge locomotives for use on Canadian National Railway 's Newfoundland lines, as are the New Zealand DF class for use by Tranz Rail .
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). Streamlined power cars and early experimental locomotives
Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GP9R Texas and New Orleans Railroad; Southern Pacific Railroad - Undergoing repairs Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [5] BNSF 1685 March 1957 General Motors Diesel (GMD) GP9 Burlington Northern (Manitoba) Limited; BNSF Railway - Operational Prairie Dog Central Railway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, [6]
General Motors Diesel (GMD) Canadian National Railway; Athabasca Northern Railway; Cando Contracting Limited - Under ownership of the Vintage Locomotive Society in Winnipeg, Manitoba: 29025 Illinois Central 6071 July 1964 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Illinois Central Gulf Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad
The EMD London plant, in London, Ontario, Canada, opened in 1949 under EMD's Canadian subsidiary General Motors Diesel, to produce locomotives during a time of rapidly rising demand. EMD London's Canadian location was useful for General Motors' when attempting to procure Canadian federal contracts and serve Canadian rail customers. [35]
The plant was re-purposed to include manufacture of other diesel-powered General Motors vehicles such as buses. Following the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1989, all of EMD's locomotives were built at the London facility. In 2005 new owners of EMD renamed the Canadian subsidiary "Electro-Motive Canada".
The GMD GP40TC was built by General Motors Diesel (GMD), for GO Transit in Toronto. Eight units were manufactured between 1966 and 1968. They were built on an extended frame to accommodate a head-end power generator. [1]: 55 GO Transit sold the fleet to Amtrak in 1988, [2]: 106 where they were based in Chicago and used on short-haul trains.
The EMD F9 is a 1,750 horsepower (1,300 kW) Diesel-electric locomotive produced between February 1953 and May 1960 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (EMD) and General Motors Diesel (GMD). It succeeded the F7 model in GM-EMD's F-unit sequence. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant.