EMD SW1500
The EMD SW1500 is a 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) Diesel-electric locomotive intended for switching service and built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division from 1966 to 1974.[1] The SW1500 replaced the SW1200 in the EMD product line. Many railroads regularly used SW1500s for road freight service.[1]
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It is similar in appearance to the EMD SW1000 model which has a different engine and has one exhaust stack while the SW1500 has two.[1][2]
Original Owners
| Domestic (US/Export) orders | ||
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| Railroad | Quantity | Road numbers |
| Alton and Southern Railway | 18 | 1500–1517 |
| Alcoa Terminal Railroad | 1 | 9 |
| Apalachicola Northern Railroad | 8 | 712–719 |
| Armco Steel | 5 | 701–705 |
| Ashley, Drew and Northern Railroad | 1 | 150 |
| Angelina and Neches River Railroad | 1 | 1500 |
| Armco Steel | 5 | 701-705 |
| Belt Railway of Chicago | 3 | 530–532 |
| Burlington Northern Railroad | 15 | 310–324 |
| Cambria and Indiana Railroad | 2 | 15, 16 |
| Chattahoochee Valley Railway | 1 | 101 |
| Chicago Short Line Railroad | 2 | 30, 31 |
| General Motors Electro-Motive Division | 9 | 106–114 |
| Georgia Power | 5 | 1401–1402, 1405, 1503–1504 |
| W.R. Grace Chemical | 2 | 101, 102 |
| Great Northern Railway | 10 | 200-209 |
| Houston Belt and Terminal Railway | 6 | 50-55 |
| Howe Coal | 2 | 1, 2 |
| Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad | 27 | 9200-9221, 9223-9227 |
| Illinois Terminal Railroad | 7 | 1509–1515 |
| Indianapolis Union Railway | 5 | 24, 26, 30–32 |
| Inland Steel | 7 | 119-125 |
| Kansas City Southern Railway | 42 | 1500–1541 |
| Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad | 16 | 67-83 |
| Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad | 2 | 23, 24 |
| Longview, Portland and Northern Railway | 1 | 130 |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad | 30 | 5000–5029 |
| Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway | 2 | 36–37 |
| Minnesota Taconite US Steel | 6 | 949–954 |
| Minnesota Transfer Railway | 7 | 300-306 |
| Mississippi Export Railroad | 1 | 64 |
| Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad | 6 | 50-55 |
| Missouri Pacific Railroad | 4 | 1518–1521 |
| New Orleans Public Belt Railroad | 3 | 151–153 |
| Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad | 2 | 160, 161 |
| Penn Central | 84 | 9500–9583 |
| Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad | 40 | 1534–1563, 9280–9289 |
| Reading Railroad | 21 | 2750–2770 |
| Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad | 9 | 1-8,91 |
| Rock Island | 10 | 940–949 |
| Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway | 2 | 500,600 |
| St. Mary's Railroad | 1 | 503 |
| Sandersville Railroad | 2 | 100,300 |
| St. Louis–San Francisco Railway | 46 | 315–360 |
| Southern Railway | 48 | 2300–2347 |
| Southern Pacific Railroad | 204 | 2450–2480, 2493–2510, 2523–2578, 2591–2689 |
| St. Louis Southwestern Railway | 36 | 2481–2492, 2511–2522, 2579–2590 |
| Tennessee Copper | 1 | 108 |
| Tennessee Eastman Corporation (Eastman Kodak) |
1 | 1 |
| Terminal Railroad Alabama State Docks | 2 | 681,682 |
| Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis | 17 | 1501–1517 |
| Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad | 4 | 303–306 |
| Union Railroad | 9 | 1–9 |
| U S Pipe and Foundry | 4 | 51–54 |
| Vermont Railway | 1 | 501 |
| Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. | 2 | 306, 307 |
| Winifrede Railroad | 1 | 13 |
| Western Pacific Railroad | 3 | 1501–1503 |
| Export orders | ||
| Amapá Railway, Brazil | 1 | 5 |
| Total | 808 | |
See also
References
- Solomon, Brian (2016-06-15). Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock. Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-0-7603-4997-7.
- Foster, Gerald L. (1996). A field guide to trains of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 11, 16. ISBN 0-395-70112-0.
- Dover, Dan (January–February 1974). "808 SW1500's". Extra 2200 South: 22–24.
- GATX Rail Locomotive Group. "SW1500". Archived from the original on September 6, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2005.
- Hayden, Bob, ed. (1980). Model Railroader Cyclopedia-Volume 2: Diesel Locomotives. Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-89024-547-9.
- Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Milwaukee, WI. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.
External links
Media related to EMD SW1500 locomotives at Wikimedia Commons
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