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The EMD FP9 was a 1,750 hp, B-B dual-service passenger and freight-hauling diesel locomotive produced between February 1954 and December 1959 by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant, except for Canadian orders, which were assembled by Canadian subsidiary GMDD at London, Ontario. The FP9 was essentially EMD's F9 locomotive extended by four feet to give greater steam generator and water capacity for hauling passenger trains. A total of 90 cab-equipped lead A units were built; unlike the freight series, no cabless booster B units were sold. Regular F9B units were sometimes used with FP9 A units, since they, lacking cabs, had more room for water and steam generators. The FP9 and its predecessor, the FP7, were offshoots of GM-EMD's highly successful F-unit series of cab unit freight diesels. The AAR wheel arrangement system is a method of classifying locomotive (or unit) wheel arrangements that was developed by the Association of American Railroads. ...
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General Motors Electro-Motive Division (normally shortened to GM EMD or just EMD) is the worlds largest builder of railroad locomotives. ...
La Grange is a relatively affluent suburb of Chicago located in Cook County, Illinois. ...
London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada on the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of about 447,286; the city proper has a population of about 351,267 (2004). ...
D&RGW F9 #5771, 1960. ...
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An A unit, in railroad terminology, is a locomotive (generally a diesel or electric locomotive) equipped with a driving cab, or crew compartment, and the control system to control other locomotives in a multiple unit, and therefore able to be the lead unit in a consist of several locomotives controlled...
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EMD F-units were a line of diesel locomotives produced between November 1939 and November 1960 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. ...
A cab unit and a carbody unit, while closely related, are not exactly the same thing. ...
Identification
Just as in the previous FP7, the FP9's carbody is essentially the F9's with 4 feet extra added a little behind the cab, just aft of the forward truck. Unlike the FP7, the forward porthole window is relocated so that it is better balanced in the space, but there is still more room between the porthole and the first carbody filter grille behind it; it is just less obvious. As on the F9, there is now a carbody filter grille before the window as well.
There is, again, a space underneath the locomotive ahead of the regular fuel tanks; this may be empty, or contain additional tanks.
Deliveries Only four of the total 90 FP9s were sold to customers in the United States, and these were rebuilt from FTs, were only 1,500 hp and were otherwise different. The rest of the total were built for Canada (54 locomotives), Mexico (25 locomotives) and Saudi Arabia (7 locomotives). EMDs FT demonstrator #103, the locomotive that sold US railroads on the freight-hauling diesel locomotive. ...
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Canada The Chicago and North Western Railway (AAR reporting marks: CNW, CNWS, CNWZ) was a Class 1 railroad in the United States. ...
Mexico Missing image Canadian National Railways logo or herald (used pre-1960) Missing image Network Map of Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway (CN; AAR reporting marks CN, CNA, CNIS), known as Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to present...
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. ...
- Ferrocarril Nacionales de Mexico: 25 locomotives, #7010-7034
Saudi Arabia - Saudi Government Railways: 7 locomotives, #1502-1508
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