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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]
The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States–based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington ...
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 ...
Most of these locomotives were purchased or leased from the SP&S's parent roads Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway. The 4-8-4 Northerns and 4-6-6-4 Challengers were purchased new. This roster groups steam locomotives by their wheel arrangement and the railroad's designated class.
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.
This gave four model series: SC, SW, NC and NW. Further developments of the 900 hp (670 kW) models gave model numbers NC1 , NC2 , NW1 , and NW1A , all of which were practically indistinguishable externally from the others, as well as a pair of unique NW4 models for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and a solitary, twin-engined T transfer locomotive ...
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Frisco 261 is an EMD NW2, that later became Burlington Northern #421. It is currently in its Burlington Northern livery and is in the collection of the Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita, KS. [60] Frisco 358 is an operational General Motors EMD SW1500, repainted to BN 63 livery, then BNSF 3443, and finally in 2024 to BJRY 1501.