An EMD SW900 is a diesel switcherlocomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January1954 and November1965. Power was provided by an EMD 567C 8-cylinder engine which generated 900 horsepower. Built concurrently with SW1200, the eight cylinder units had a single exhaust stack. Categories: Rail stubs | Illinois railroads | Iowa railroads | Minnesota railroads | Missouri railroads | Wisconsin railroads ... A switcher (the general United States usage; common British terminology is shunter, while the Pennsylvania Railroad used shifter) is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains any great distance but rather for assembling a train ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has... Great Western Railway No. ... General Motors Electro-Motive Division (normally shortened to GM EMD or just EMD) is the worlds largest builder of railroad locomotives. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ...
260 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads and 97 were built for Canadian railroads.
References
Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Kalmbach Books, Waukesha, WI. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.
Diesel switcher locomotives built by GM-EMD
(See also: List of GM-EMD locomotives) General Motors Electro-Motive Division (normally shortened to GM EMD or just EMD) is the worlds largest builder of railroad locomotives. ... The following is a list of locomotives produced by the General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD). ...
EMD can lay claim to being the company that ended the dominion of the steam locomotive on the world's railroads, by both producing high-quality, reliable locomotives, and just as importantly (maybe more so) knowing how to sell them.
EMD also built a turbocharged V20 that produced 3600 hp for the SD45, but that was their first and last 20-cylinder engine.
The 1960s saw EMD consolidate their position as the dominant locomotive builder in the USA; new, high power locomotives, like the 3000 horsepower (2.2 MW) EMD SD40 and the 3600 horsepower (2.7 MW) EMD SD45 V20 were produced and proved highly successful.
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