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EMD SW900 Performance figures Power output 900 hp (670 kW )
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.
A Cow-calf variation, the TR9, was cataloged, but none were built.
Original buyers 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
Alabama By-products 1 900
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
275
Built by General Motors Diesel, Canada See also References
