The E series set the stage for the end of the steam locomotive era. And a swift end it was. Within twenty years of the EMC’s debut of the EA, the first in the series, steam would all but be silenced across the rail industry’s major Class I railroads. ...
Solomon, Brian.Electro-Motive E-Units and F-Units: The Illustrated History of North America's Favorite Locomotives. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2011.
The article reports on the plans for a 200-kilometer per hour (km/h) passenger locomotive for the North American market announced by Electro-Motive Diesel. Also included in the announcement was the final design of a high power locomotive for Indian Railways. It is noted that the passenger ...
History and DevelopmentThe development of the GP50 and GP60 series (B-B) the SD50 and SD60 series (C-C) locomotives (all of these being 16 cylinders; EMD formerly offered 3,600 hp (2,700 kW) in a 20-cylinder model, the SD45, but it had a reputation for being a fuel guzzler,...
Caterpillar Completes Buy of Locomotive Builder EMD.This article reports on the acquisition of heavy locomotive builder Electro-Motive Diesel by equipment manufacturer Caterpillar in 2010.BoydJohnD.JoC Online
nearly indistinguishable from the earlier SD50, the SD60 featured the new 16-cylinder EMD 710G3A prime mover, AR-11 traction alternator, D-87 traction motors and a microprocessor-based control system that governed various electrical systems within the locomotive (e.g., wheel slip and transition...
The E7 was Electro-Motive's first in the series featuring the now-classic "bulldog" nose. As Brian Solomon notes in his book, "Electro-Motive: E Units And F Units," the ease of War Production Board restrictions on domestic diesel locomotive production enabled EMD to unveil a redesigned ...
Solomon, Brian.EMD Locomotives. Minneapolis: MBI Publishing Company, 2006. Solomon, Brian.Electro-Motive E-Units and F-Units: The Illustrated History of North America's Favorite Locomotives. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2011.
The All-American F7 defined railroading during the 1950s; nearly every notable Class 1 operated at least one and many rostered dozens, or even hundreds, of these locomotives. When one pictures Electro-Motive's classic streamlined diesels, the F7 most often comes to mind....
By the time the war had ended EMD was fully entrenched as the leader of the diesel locomotive market pulling away from the American Locomotive Company whose beautiful but mechanically trouble-prone PA fell behind the E series in sales and interest....