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An EMD SW900 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel (GMD) between December 1953 and March 1969. Power was provided by an EMD 567C 8-cylinder engine that generated 900 horsepower (670 kW). Built concurrently with SW1200, the eight cylinder units had a single exhaust stack.
260 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads and 97 were built for Canadian railroads. Canadian production of the SW900 lasted three and a half years past EMD production. Seven units were exported to Orinoco Mining Co (Venezuela); two units were exported to Southern Peru Copper Co; and five units were exported to the Liberian-American Mining Co. Total production is 371 units.
In the early 1960s, the Reading Company sent 14 of their Baldwin VO 1000 model switchers to EMD to have them rebuilt to SW900 specifications.
[edit] Original buyers
[edit] Built by Electro-Motive Division, USA
| Railroad |
Quantity |
Road numbers |
Notes |
| Electro-Motive Division (demonstrator) |
1
|
6534
|
to River Terminal 99 |
|
1
|
6535
|
to Waterloo Railway 4 |
| American Steel and Wire |
4
|
3–6
|
|
| Armco Steel |
13
|
1203–1214
|
|
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
4
|
650–653
|
|
| Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
29
|
625–653
|
|
| Birmingham Southern Railroad |
5
|
91–95
|
|
| General Motors Buick Motor Division |
2
|
GM792, GM818
|
|
| Canton Railroad |
5
|
44–48
|
|
| Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway (“Crandic”) |
1
|
94
|
|
| Champion International Corporation |
1
|
3
|
|
| Chicago and North Western Railway |
2
|
144–145
|
|
| Chicago Great Western Railway |
1
|
5
|
|
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad |
29
|
550–563, 900–914
|
|
| Colorado and Western Railroad |
1
|
214
|
|
| Colorado River and Western Railroad |
1
|
201
|
|
| Corinth and Counce Railroad |
2
|
901–902
|
|
| Cuyahoga Valley Railway |
2
|
960–961
|
|
| De Queen and Eastern Railroad |
1
|
D-4
|
|
| Detroit Edison Company |
1
|
214
|
|
| Feather River Railway |
1
|
12
|
|
| Fernwood, Columbia and Gulf Railroad |
1
|
900
|
|
| Grand Trunk Western Railroad |
15
|
7225–7232, 7262–7268
|
|
| Granite City Steel |
2
|
900–901
|
|
| Hanna Furnace Company |
1
|
17
|
|
| Hercules Powder Company |
1
|
61
|
|
| Inland Stone and Chemical Company |
1
|
10
|
|
| Jacksonville Terminal |
3
|
37–39
|
|
| Lancaster and Chester Railway |
2
|
90–91
|
L&C 91 was the last EMD built SW900 in 11/65 |
| Lehigh Valley Railroad |
6
|
107, 110, 121, 123, 125, 130
|
|
| Liberian-American Mining |
5
|
201-205
|
|
| McLouth Steel |
2
|
6–7
|
|
| Missouri Portland Cement |
1
|
1
|
|
| Monessen Southwestern |
3
|
28–30
|
|
| New York Central Railroad |
16
|
9631–9646
|
|
| New York Central (Cleveland Union Terminal) |
3
|
9628–9360
|
|
| Orinoco Mining Company |
7
|
1090-1096
|
|
| Pickering Lumber |
4
|
101–104
|
|
| Raritan River Railroad |
6
|
1–6
|
|
| Reading Company |
15
|
1501–1515
|
|
| Republic Steel Corporation |
12
|
345, 347–349, 354–359, 373–374
|
|
| River Terminal Railway |
10
|
90–97, 98, 100
|
|
| Sand Springs Railway |
3
|
100–102
|
|
| Simpson Logging Company |
1
|
900
|
|
| South Peru Copper |
2
|
9-10
|
|
| Southern Pacific Company |
10
|
4624–4633
|
|
| U.S. Steel |
1
|
157
|
|
| U.S. Sugar |
3
|
154–156
|
|
| Valdosta Southern Railway |
1
|
955
|
|
| Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company |
1
|
1
|
|
| Waterloo Railway |
3
|
1–3
|
|
| Woodward Iron Company |
1
|
62
|
|
| Youngstown Sheet and Tube |
5
|
900–904
|
|
| Total |
274 |
|
|
[edit] Built by General Motors Diesel, Canada
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.
