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EMD SW7 Baltimore and Ohio
No. 9624 TR4 cow-calf set at Riverside Yard, Baltimore, in 1969
Performance figures Power output 1,200 hp (895 kW)
The EMD SW7 was a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between October 1949 and January 1951. It was powered by a 1,200 horsepower (895 kW )12-567A engine .[1] The SW7 replaced the earlier 1,000 horsepower NW2 switcher in EMD's catalog. A total of 489 SW7 locomotives were produced. The majority of the SW7s were built by EMD Plant #3 in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, 15 TR4 cow-calf paired sets were produced.
Original buyers
SW7
Railroad
Quantity
Road numbers
Notes
Arkansas and Louisiana Missouri Railway
1
11
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
9
643–651
Central Railroad of New Jersey
4
1080–1083
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway
2
800–801
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
26
5214–5239
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
6
126–131
Chicago and Eastern Illinois (Chicago Heights Terminal and Transfer Railroad )
2
132–133
Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad
3
101–103
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
20
9249–9268
to Burlington Northern 115-134
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
1
1646
renumbered 623
Clinchfield Railroad
6
350–355
Colorado and Southern Railway
1
154
Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad
15
103–117
Cornwall Railroad
3
120–122
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad
3
116–118
Detroit Terminal
1
116
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad
5
920–924
Erie Railroad
6
428–433
Great Northern Railway
11
163–170, 11–13
to Burlington Northern 135-145
Illinois Central Railroad
50
9300–9319, 9400–9429
Kansas City Southern Railway
10
1300–1309
Kansas City Southern Railway (Louisiana and Arkansas Railway )
6
1310–1315
Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad
1
12
Lehigh Valley Railroad
5
220–224
Louisiana Midland Railway
1
10
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
22
2245–2266
Maine Central Railroad
3
331–333
Missouri Pacific Railroad
5
9142–9146
Monessen Southwestern Railway
1
21
Montour Railroad
1
72
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
10
24–33
New York Central Railroad
34
8851–8855, 8880–8897, 8911–8921
New York Central (Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad )
40
8835–8850, 8856–8879
New York Central (Chicago River and Indiana Railroad )
6
8898–8903
New York Central (Peoria and Eastern Railway )
7
8904–8910
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Road”)
3
230–232
Northern Pacific Railway
8
107–114
to Burlington Northern same
Pennsylvania Railroad
48
8861–8868, 8871–8872, 9358–9395
Peoria and Pekin Union Railway
5
406–410
Phelps Dodge Corporation (New Cornelia Branch Mine)
1
6
Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad
4
31–34
River Terminal Railway
2
61–62
Southern Railway (Alabama Great Southern Railroad )
5
6505–6509
Southern Railway (Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway )
14
6060–6073
Southern Railway (Georgia Southern and Florida Railway )
4
8200–8203
Southern Railway (New Orleans and North Eastern Railway )
12
6852–6863
St. Louis Southwestern Railway (“Cotton Belt”)
4
1054–1057
renumbered 2200-2203
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (“Frisco”)
5
300–304
Texas and Pacific Railway
4
1020–1023
Union Pacific Railroad
25
1800–1824
Union Railroad
4
571–574
Wabash Railroad
8
355–362
Weyerhaueser Timber Company
2
300–301
Woodward Iron Company
2
50–51
Built with 567B engines
Youngstown and Southern Railway
2
70–71
Total
489
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References