EMD NW2

EMD NW2
Midland Railway EMD NW2 #524, at Baldwin City, Kansas
Type and origin Power type Diesel-electric Builder General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Model NW2 Build date February, 1939 - December, 1949 Total produced 1145
Specifications Configuration: ​  • AAR B-B Prime mover EMD 12-567 Cylinders 12
Performance figures Power output 1,000 hp (750 kW)

The EMD NW2 is a 1,000 hp (750 kW), B-B switcher locomotive manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. The NW2 was manufactured from February, 1939 to December, 1949, and 1145 were produced – 1121 for the U.S., and 24 were exported to Canada. Starting in late 1948 the NW2s were manufactured in EMD's Plant #3 in Cleveland, Ohio. The 1,000 hp (750 kW) was achieved by using a 12-cylinder, model 567, and later, a model 567A engine. In addition, 3 TR cow-calf paired sets, 36 TR2 cow-calf paired sets, and 2 TR3 cow-calf-calf sets were produced. The TR sets were built prior to WWII and the TR2 and TR3 sets were built postwar.

Identification

Distinguishing features include two stacks in the middle of the hood, a half-height radiator grille, no sand box on the front platform, and no small louvers at the top front corners of the sides of the hood. The predecessor of the NW2 was the NW1. The "N" in NW1 stands for nine hundred hp (670 kW). The "W" in both models stands for welded frame.

Original owners

NW2

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Appalachicola Northern Railroad	4	701–704
Arkansas and Louisiana Missouri Railway	1	10
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway	15	2353–2367	Renumbered 2403–2417
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad	6	601, 603, 605, 611, 613, 615	600,611,613,615 Renumbered 600-602,604, 600-605 to Seaboard Coast Line Railroad 20-25
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad	49	400–408, 550–589	Renumbered 9500–9508, 9542-9551, 9512–9541
Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad	3	409–411	Renumbered 9509–9511
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad	4	800–803	Renumbered 20–23
Boston and Maine Railroad	14	1200–1213
Canadian National Railways	20	7936–7945, 7956–7965
Central of Georgia Railway	2	20, 25
Central Railroad of New Jersey	2	1060–1061
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	41	1850–1856, 5200–5213, 5060–5079
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad	6	119–124
Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad	2	250–251
Chicago Great Western Railway	17	16–31, 42	to Chicago and North Western Railway
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad	46	9203–9248	to Burlington Northern 500-545
Chicago, Indiananpolis and Louisville Railway (“Monon”)	7	1–3, 14–17	1–3 renumbered 11–13
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (“Milwaukee Road”)	8	1647–1654	Renumbered 665–672
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad	10	765–774
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway	1	70	to Chicago and North Western Railway 70
Colorado and Southern Railway	4	150–153
Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad	3	100–102
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad	5	461–465	to Erie Lackawanna Railroad 441-445
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad	1	7000	Renumbered 100
Detroit Terminal Railroad	11	104–112, 114–115
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad	7	910–916
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway	40	403–407, 409–443
Electro-Motive Division (demonstrator)	1	889	to Union Pacific 1000
Erie Railroad	27	401–427	to Erie Lackawanna 401-427
Fort Worth and Denver City Railway	3	603, 605–606
Fort Worth Belt Railway	1	2	to Missouri Pacific Railroad 1020
Georgia Railroad	5	901–905
Grand Trunk Western Railroad	24	7900–7914, 7966–7974	7974 built as Central Vermont Railway 7974
Great Northern Railway	51	5302–5331, 5334-5336, 145–162	5302–5336 renumbered 102–135, to Burlington Northern 459-499
Illinois Central Railroad	17	9150–9166	Renumbered 1000–1016
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad	78	8715–8739, 8774–8802, 8811–8834
Indiana Northern Railway	1	100	to NJI&I 2, then Wabash 353, then N&W 3353
Jacksonville Terminal	7	30–36
Kansas City Southern Railway	32	1100–1102, 1125–1126, 1200–1226	1125-1126, 1212-1221 were Louisiana & Arkansas
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway	1	1001	to Missouri Pacific Railroad 1027
Lake Champlain and Moriah Rail Road	1	19
Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway	5	100–104
Lake Terminal Railroad	20	1001–1020
Lehigh Valley Railroad	7	180–186
Louisville and Nashville Railroad	5	2240–2244	Renumbered 2215–2219
Manistee and Northeastern Railway	2	2–3	to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad	2	80–81
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway	2	D-139, D-740	Renumbered 100, 101 to Chicago & North Western Ry 100, 201
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (“Soo Line”)	2	300, 301
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (Wisconsin Central Railway)	1	2108
Missouri Pacific Railroad	3	9104–9106	9104, 9106 renumbered 1021, 1022
Missouri-Illinois Railroad	1	51	to Missouri Pacific Railroad 1028
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad	5	1026–1030	Renumbered 7–11
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway	5	20–23, 25	25 renumbered 19; to Louisville and Nashville Railroad 2119-2123, renumbered 2210-2214
New York Central Railroad	57	8700–8714, 8740–8773, 8803–8810	8705-8714, 8740-8749 were Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Road”)	16	7–22
New York, Ontario and Western Railway	21	111–131	115 to Northern Pacific Railway 99, 111-113 to Unadilla Valley Railway 111-113, then to Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 795-797, remainder to New York Central Railroad 9500-9516
Northern Pacific Railway	6	101–106	102-106 to Burlington Northern 450-458
Pennsylvania Railroad	32	3909, 5921–5925, 9155–9176, 9247–9250
Peoria and Pekin Union Railway	6	400–405
Pere Marquette Railway	14	51–64	to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Lavender Pit	2	1–2
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Morenci Mine	4	5–8
Phelps Dodge Corporation, New Cornelia Branch Mine	7	1–5, 3 (second) 4 (second)
Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad	8	219, 222–225, 26–28	219, 222–225 renumbered 21–25
Reading Company	8	90–92, 100–104
Republic Steel Corporation	1	D-815
River Terminal Railway	1	60
Seaboard Air Line Railroad	7	1406–1412	to Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Southern Railway	69	2200–2204, 2206–2207, 2233–2284, 6050–6056, 6850, 6851, 8560	6050-6056 were Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, 6850-6851 were New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, 8560 was St. Johns River Terminal
Southern Pacific Company	50	1310–1319, 1403–1425, 72–88	72-88 were Texas & New Orleans
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway	3	40–42	to Burlington Northern 593–595
St. Louis Southwestern Railway	4	1050–1053	Renumbered to 1900-1903
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway	16	250–265
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad	3	900–902
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis	17	551–567
Texas and Pacific Railway	20	1000–1019	to Missouri Pacific Railroad
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway	4	51–54
Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad	1	52
Union Pacific Railroad	95	1001–1095
Union Railroad	20	536–555
United States Navy, Fallbrook Naval Ammunition Depot	4	1–4
United States Navy, Hawthorne, Nevada	1	44
Wabash Railroad	3	350–352	to Norfolk and Western Railway 3350–3352, 3350 to Des Moines Union Railway 7
West Virginia Northern Railroad	2	50–51
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway	4	D-1–D-4
Wheeling Steel Company	1	1251
Total	1145

TR

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Illinois Central Railroad	3 sets	9203AB–9205AB

TR2 (cow-calf)

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Electro-Motive Division (demonstrator)	1 set	912AB	to CB&Q 9400AB
Belt Railway of Chicago	2 sets	500AB, 501AB
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad	13 sets	9401AB–9413AB	calf-units rebuilt with cabs
Chicago and North Western Railway	2 sets	2000AB, 2001AB
Chicago Great Western Railroad	9 sets	58AB–66AB
Illinois Central Railroad	3 sets	9206AB–9208AB
Milwaukee Road	1 set	2000AB
Southern Railway	5 sets	2400AB–2404AB
Total	36 sets

TR3 (cow-calf-calf)

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	2 sets	6500ABC, 6501ABC

Surviving and preserved units

Many NW2's survive today. One NW2 is operated by the Midland Railway in Baldwin City, Kansas. It is privately owned. It is ex-Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #9227. It is used mainly for work trains. The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway of Illinois and Indiana operates an NW2 cow/calf unit in its Joliet railyard. The Indiana Harbor Belt who operated near 80 still operates two.

Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway 101 is unrestored at the Minnesota Transportation Museum.

Chicago & North Western donated NW2 1003 and TR2B 1103 to the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad in 1986, as a cow-calf set. 1003 was originally Grand Trunk Western Railroad 7914, and 1103 was originally Chicago Great Western Railway 65B. 1003 operates, but 1103 is unrestored.

Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad 81, at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Western Pacific Railroad 608, originally built as Union Pacific Railroad D.S. 1001 is today preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. This locomotive is part of the popular Run-A-Locomotive program. It was the Union Pacific's second wholly owned diesel.

Southern Pacific Railroad 1423 is preserved and operated by the Niles Canyon Railway near Fremont, California.

Reading Company NW2 #103 is owned by the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society, and is today preserved in restored and operational status at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, PA.

Union Pacific Railroad D.S. 1011 and D.S. 1043 are preserved and operated by the Heber Valley Railroad in Heber City, Utah.

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) NW2 #1649 is preserved and operated by the Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello, Illinois.

New York Ontario & Western Railroad #116 survives - was owned by Delaware & Otsego president Walter Rich and used on the New York Susquehanna & Western. It was painted in NYO&W colors, it was retired in the mid-2000s and was bequeathed to the Delaware and Ulster Railroad DURR upon Walter Rich's death.

EOLX #15, a restored EMD NW-2 operated by Florida Rail Adventures provides service for the Mount Dora Meteor in Mount Dora, FL. The locomotive saw service 3 to 5 days a week on the Sorrento Branch, from Mt. Dora, FL to Tavares, FL.

See also

List of GM-EMD locomotives

References

• Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide, pp.EMD-36, 37. Kalmbach Books. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-22894.
• Solomon, Brian (2000). The American Diesel Locomotive, p. 53. MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7603-0666-4.

• Kristopans, Andre EMD Switcher Serial Number webpage

http://community-2.webtv.net/ajkristopans/SWITCHERS201Aand567/index.html

• Kristopans, Andre EMD Export page

http://community-2.webtv.net/ajkristopans/ANDRESGMLOCOMOTIVE/page2.html

External links

• Midland Railway roster
• Florida Rail Adventure's Mount Dora Meteor