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The EMD BL1 was a single prototype diesel-electric locomotive constructed by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in September 1947, assigned demonstrator number 499 and internally designated as EM…

The BL1 was powered by an EMD 567B prime mover, a two-stroke V-type diesel engine that produced 1,500 horsepower and drove the locomotive through a DC electric…

The EMD BL2 emerged in the late 1940s as Electro-Motive Division's attempt to compete in the growing road switcher market without fully abandoning the carbody styling philosophy that had defined its …

The BL2 was powered by the EMD 567B prime mover, a two-stroke diesel engine that produced 1,500 horsepower and was also used in various other EMD products of t…

The EMD DD35 emerged from a dialogue between Union Pacific Railroad and General Motors' Electro-Motive Division in the early 1960s, when Union Pacific expressed interest in extremely high-horsepower …

The DD35 was a cabless booster unit rated at 5,000 horsepower, achieved by mounting two EMD 567D3A prime movers on a single elongated frame in a back-to-back c…

The EMD DD35A was a cab-equipped diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division exclusively for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1965. It represented a direct evolution of th…

The DD35A was in essence two EMD GP35 power assemblies united on a single extended frame, with each unit contributing one 567D3A prime mover for a combined out…

The EMD DDA40X was developed by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors exclusively for the Union Pacific Railroad, emerging from a long Union Pacific tradition of pursuing exceptionally high-p…

The DDA40X was powered by two EMD 16-cylinder 645E3 prime movers, together producing 6,600 horsepower and making it the most powerful diesel-electric locomotiv…

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The EMD E1 was among the earliest passenger diesel locomotives produced by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, emerging in 1937 as a direct successor to the experimental EA units built for…

Each E1 locomotive was powered by two Winton 201-A prime movers, a sixteen-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine that had been developed in the early 1930s and was…

The EMD E2A and E2B were diesel-electric passenger locomotives built by the Electro-Motive Corporation in 1937, representing an evolution of the early streamliner power units that had begun to transf…

Each of the E2 locomotives was powered by a pair of Winton 201-A diesel engines, the same prime mover that had been used in several earlier Electro-Motive stre…

The EMD E3 emerged from Electro-Motive Corporation's La Grange, Illinois facility in September 1938 as the fourth model in the company's growing line of E-series passenger diesel locomotives. The dem…

The E3A and E3B units each developed 2,000 horsepower through the use of two twelve-cylinder EMD 567 engines mounted in the locomotive's engine compartment, ea…

The EMD E4 was a passenger locomotive produced by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors between 1938 and 1939, representing a continuation of the successful E-unit lineage that EMD had been d…

The E4 was powered by two EMD 567 prime movers, each contributing to a combined output of 2,000 horsepower, which was transmitted to the rails through a DC tra…

The EMD E5 was a passenger locomotive produced by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors between 1940 and 1941, representing a relatively brief but notable chapter in the development of stream…

Each E5A cab unit was rated at 2,000 horsepower, produced by a pair of EMD 567 prime movers, each generating 1,000 horsepower. The 567 series engine, which bec…

The EMD E6 emerged in late 1939 as the seventh generation of Electro-Motive's passenger diesel lineup, a series of locomotives that had been steadily refining the concept of high-speed diesel-powered…

The E6A and E6B were powered by a pair of General Motors 567-series prime movers, each a 12-cylinder, two-stroke diesel engine producing 1,000 horsepower, for …

The EMD E7 represented a pivotal moment in American railroad history, arriving at precisely the point when the nation's passenger railroads were emerging from the demands of wartime and looking to mo…

The E7 was powered by two EMD 567A prime movers, each a turbocharged V-16 diesel engine, combining to produce a total output of 2,000 horsepower. Power was tra…

The EMD E8 represented the mature culmination of Electro-Motive Division's long-running E series of passenger locomotives, which had defined American passenger train motive power since the mid-1930s.…

The E8A and E8B were powered by two General Motors EMD 567B diesel engines, each displacing 567 cubic inches per cylinder across a sixteen-cylinder configurati…

The EMD E9 was the tenth and final member of Electro-Motive Division's celebrated E-unit family, produced at the company's La Grange, Illinois facilities from April 1954 through January 1964. Over th…

The E9 was powered by a pair of EMD 567C engines, each a twelve-cylinder, two-stroke, Roots-blown diesel arranged in a 45-degree V configuration with a bore an…

The EA and EB were among the earliest passenger diesel locomotives produced by the Electro-Motive Corporation of La Grange, Illinois, entering production in May 1937 for the Baltimore and Ohio Railro…

Each EA or EB unit was powered by a pair of Winton 201-A diesel engines, each rated at 900 horsepower, giving a combined output of 1,800 horsepower per unit. T…

The EMD F125 Spirit is a passenger diesel locomotive developed by Electro-Motive Diesel for the North American commuter rail market, representing the manufacturer's first new passenger locomotive off…

The F125 Spirit is configured as a four-axle locomotive riding on a B-B wheel arrangement and is powered by a Caterpillar C175-20 twenty-cylinder diesel engine…

The EMD F2 was a diesel-electric freight locomotive produced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division over a remarkably short window, from July 1946 through November 1946. In total, 104 units were …

The F2 rode on a B-B wheel arrangement, with two two-axle trucks supporting each unit, and was powered by the EMD 567B prime mover driving a DC electrical tran…

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The EMD F3 emerged from General Motors' Electro-Motive Division as the third entry in the celebrated F-unit series of cab unit diesel locomotives, entering production in July 1945 and continuing thro…

The F3 was powered by a 16-cylinder version of EMD's 567B series diesel engine, a two-stroke, mechanically aspirated design arranged in a 45-degree V configura…

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The EMD F40PH emerged directly from Amtrak's dissatisfaction with its earlier motive power acquisitions. When Amtrak began operations in 1971 it inherited a collection of aging and mechanically misma…

The F40PH was derived from EMD's GP40-2 freight road switcher and shared that locomotive's turbocharged 645E3 engine, a V16 two-stroke water-cooled diesel deve…

The EMD F40PH-2 emerged in 1985 as a refined successor to the original F40PH, which had by that point already transformed American passenger rail operations. Where the original F40PH had been conceiv…

The F40PH-2 was powered by the turbocharged EMD 645E3 V16 two-stroke diesel engine, the same prime mover that underpinned the original F40PH, but tuned to prod…

The EMD F40PHM-2 represented the final production variant of the long-running F40PH family, with all 30 units built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1991 and 1992. The entire product…

The F40PHM-2 was powered by the turbocharged EMD 645E3 sixteen-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine, producing 3,000 horsepower, the same prime mover that had pow…

The EMD F45 emerged from a collaborative relationship between General Motors' Electro-Motive Division and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1960s. Santa Fe had already worked with…

The F45 was powered by the EMD 645E3 prime mover in its twenty-cylinder configuration, producing 3,600 horsepower and driving a Co-Co wheel arrangement through…

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The designation F5 was never an officially released or widely marketed locomotive model from General Motors' Electro-Motive Division in the way that the F3 or F7 were. Rather, the F5 designation aros…

The locomotives informally designated as F5 shared the fundamental mechanical architecture of the EMD F3, including the 16-cylinder 567B prime mover producing …

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I need to be straightforward here: I do not have confident, verified information about an EMD model specifically designated the F50CM. EMD produced numerous locomotive models over the decades, includ…

Without verified technical data for the F50CM specifically, it would not be appropriate to describe its mechanical configuration, prime mover, horsepower ratin…

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