EMD SW1000
An EMD SW1000 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between June 1966 and October 1972. 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).
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114 EMD SW1000 units were built for railroads and industrial operations in the United States. One unit was exported to Jamaica for a mining operation and 4 units were exported to industrial operators in Mexico.
Currently 2 EMD SW1000 units are owned and operated by VIA Rail Canada in the Montreal Maintenance Centre.[1]
SW1000 Locomotives as built by EMD
Railroad | Quantity | Road numbers | Notes |
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Altos Hornos de Mexico | |||
Cementos Anahuac (Mexico) | Transferred to CEMEX acquired Anahuac in 1987[2] | ||
Appalachian Power | Now owned by Roanoke Chapter NRHS. | ||
Armco Steel | |||
Birmingham Southern Railroad | 15 to 17 scrapped 1973; 13 became 213 and sold to Watco, Inc. | ||
Burlington Northern | #442 rebuilt without cab; transferred to BNSF with one sold to GATX Rail Locomotive Group | ||
Chicago Burlington and Quincy | to Burlington Northern 574-585 | ||
Ferrocarril Chihuahua Cellulose (Mexico) | to Ferromex | ||
Corn Products International | |||
Cuyahoga Valley Railroad | |||
Denver and Rio Grande | |||
Detroit Edison | |||
Duluth and Northeastern | to Cloquet Terminal Railroad | ||
Eastman Kodak | |||
E I DuPont Nemours and Company | |||
General Motors-Central Foundry Division | |||
Great Lakes Steel | |||
Hampton and Branchville | |||
Houston Belt and Terminal | |||
Inland Steel | 2 sold to Via Rail | ||
Jones and Laughlin Steel | |||
Kaiser Bauxite (Jamaica) | |||
Mobil Chemical | |||
New Orleans Public Belt | |||
Public Service Company of Indiana | |||
Wisconsin Electric Power | |||
Youngstown Sheet and Tube | |||
Total | 119 | ||
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See also
References
- "Locomotives - SW1000 (switcher)". ViaRail.ca. Via Rail. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- https://www.cemex.ae/our-history
- Marre, Louis A. & Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1989). The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-89024-088-4. LCCN 88083625. OCLC 19959644.
- Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89024-026-7.
- Diesel Era Volume 3 Number 1 January/February 1992 pp37–49
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