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EMD SW1500

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EMD SW1500
NIRC 4 performs switching duties near Chicago Union Station
Type and origin
Power typeDiesel
BuilderGeneral Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
ModelSW1500
Build dateJune 1966 – January 1974
Total produced808
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • AARB-B
Gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length44 ft 8 in (13.61 m)
Loco weight248,000 lb (112,491 kg)
Prime moverEMD 645
Engine typeV12 2-stroke diesel
AspirationRoots blower
Displacement9,072 in3 (149 L)
GeneratorMain: D32
Traction motorsD77/78DC
TransmissionDiesel-electric
Loco brakeStraight air
Train brakesAir
Performance figures
Power output1,500 hp (1,119 kW)
Tractive effort:
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 • Continuous42,250 lbf (187.94 kN)[1]
Career
LocaleNorth America South America

The EMD SW1500 is a 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division from 1966 to 1974.[2] The SW1500 replaced the SW1200 in the EMD product line. Many railroads regularly used SW1500s for road freight service.[2]

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.[2][3]

Original owners

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Domestic (US/Export) orders
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
Belt Railway of Chicago 3 530–532
Burlington Northern Railroad 15 310–324
Cambria and Indiana Railroad 2 15, 16
Chattahoochee Valley Railway 1 100
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 67–68, 70–83
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

Preservation

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Many SW1500s remain in active service, used mostly by shortlines, switching and terminal railroads, and railroad equipment leasing companies such as GATX. However, several examples of this popular model have been preserved:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ GATX Rail Locomotive Group. "SW1500". Archived from the original on September 6, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2005.
  2. ^ a b c Solomon, Brian (2016-06-15). Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock. Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-0-7603-4997-7.
  3. ^ Foster, Gerald L. (1996). A field guide to trains of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 11, 16. ISBN 0-395-70112-0.
  4. ^ a b "Kentucky Steam Heritage Equipment". Kentucky Steam. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  5. ^ "Western Pacific 1503". tour.wplives.org. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  6. ^ "CN donates locomotive to Green Bay museum | Trains Magazine". Trains. 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  • Dover, Dan (January–February 1974). "808 SW1500's". Extra 2200 South: 22–24.
  • 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.
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