Real Train Database

The EMD SD60MAC emerged in 1991 as a small but historically significant variant of the SD60 family, produced in a single batch of just twenty units. These locomotives were built as demonstrators inte…

The SD60MAC shares its fundamental mechanical architecture with the SD60M, including the full-width short hood and North American safety cab configuration. It …

The EMD SD7 holds a significant place in American railroad history as the first locomotive in Electro-Motive Division's long-running SD, or Special Duty, series. EMD developed the model as a six-axle…

The SD7 was powered by EMD's 567B prime mover, a 16-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine producing 1,500 horsepower, driving six nose-suspended DC traction motors…

Models by: Rapido Trains · ScaleTrains

The EMD SD70 entered production in late 1992 as the base model of a new locomotive family intended to succeed the SD60 series. Electro-Motive Diesel developed the SD70 line as a response to evolving …

The base SD70 is a C-C road switcher powered by the 16-cylinder EMD 710G3B prime mover producing 4,000 horsepower. It employs direct current traction motors, w…

Models by: Athearn · Walthers

The EMD SD70ACe entered production in 2004 as the direct successor to the SD70MAC, developed primarily to meet the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Tier 2 diesel emissions standards th…

The SD70ACe is powered by the EMD 710G3B-EC, a 16-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine rated at 4,300 horsepower, paired with an AC traction system that employs t…

Models by: Athearn · Bachmann · Broadway Limited · MTH · Walthers

The EMD SD70ACe-T4 represents the latest evolution of Electro-Motive Diesel's long-running SD70 family, developed to comply with the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Tier 4 emissions s…

The SD70ACe-T4 is powered by the EMD 1010J diesel engine, a departure from the long-serving 710 series prime mover that had underpinned EMD's road locomotives …

The SD70ACU emerged as a practical solution to a persistent problem facing North American railroads in the early 2010s: what to do with hundreds of idled SD90MAC and SD9043MAC locomotives that had pr…

The SD70ACU retains the C-C wheel arrangement of its SD90MAC predecessors, riding on the same heavy-duty trucks that supported those original locomotives. Powe…

Models by: Athearn

The EMD SD70I represents a specialized variant of the broader SD70 locomotive family, produced by Electro-Motive Diesel in 1995. Only 26 examples of this model were ever built, and all of them were o…

The SD70I shares its core mechanical architecture with the standard SD70, including the 4,000 horsepower 16-cylinder EMD 710 prime mover and direct current tra…

Models by: Athearn

The EMD SD70M entered production in 1992 as part of Electro-Motive Division's broader SD70 family, itself a development of the earlier SD60 series. The model distinguished itself from the base SD70 v…

The SD70M is powered by the EMD 710G3B prime mover, a turbocharged 16-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine rated at 4,000 horsepower. Traction is transmitted thro…

Models by: Athearn · Kato · Walthers

The EMD SD70M-2 emerged as Electro-Motive Diesel's answer to increasingly stringent emissions requirements in North America. When the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Tier 2 diesel emi…

The SD70M-2 is powered by the EMD 710G3B-T2 prime mover, a 16-cylinder version of the long-running 710 engine family tuned to comply with EPA Tier 2 emissions …

The EMD SD70MAC entered production in 1993 as Electro-Motive Division's answer to the growing demand for high-horsepower AC traction locomotives in North American freight service. It represented EMD'…

The SD70MAC is powered by the EMD 710G3B prime mover, a turbocharged 16-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine producing 4,000 horsepower, though later production u…

Models by: Athearn · Bachmann · Kato · Walthers

The EMD SD75I was a diesel-electric locomotive produced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division during the mid-to-late 1990s, representing an extension of the SD70 series lineage that itself grew …

The SD75I was powered by the EMD 710G3B-EC prime mover, a 16-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine that produced 4,300 horsepower, representing a meaningful increa…

Models by: Athearn

The EMD SD75M was a diesel-electric road switcher locomotive produced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between 1994 and 1999. It emerged as EMD's response to increasing competition from Gen…

The SD75M is powered by the EMD 710G3B-EC prime mover, a 16-cylinder variant of EMD's 710 engine series, producing 4,300 horsepower and driving the locomotive …

Models by: Athearn

The EMD SD80MAC was a 5,000 horsepower diesel-electric locomotive produced by Electro-Motive Diesel between 1995 and 1996. A total of 30 units were built, all of which were delivered exclusively to C…

The SD80MAC was powered by an EMD 710G3B-EC 20-cylinder prime mover, operating at a full speed of 904 rpm and producing 5,000 horsepower. The locomotive rode o…

Models by: Athearn

The EMD SD89MAC emerged in the early 1990s as part of Electro-Motive Division's effort to develop a new generation of high-horsepower AC traction locomotives. Conceived as a less powerful alternative…

The SD89MAC was powered by the EMD 710G3B diesel engine, producing approximately 4,300 horsepower, though some sources have cited figures closer to 4,500 horse…

The EMD SD9 was the second locomotive produced under Electro-Motive Division's SD, or Special Duty, line, following the earlier SD7. Production ran from January 1954 through June 1959, during which t…

The SD9 was powered by EMD's 567C prime mover, a 16-cylinder turbocharged engine producing 1,750 horsepower. The 567C represented a meaningful refinement over …

Models by: Rapido Trains · ScaleTrains · Walthers

The SD9043MAC emerged from a compromise born of necessity during the mid-1990s, when Electro-Motive Division was developing its next generation of high-horsepower road locomotives. The intended cente…

The SD9043MAC is a C-C road switcher powered by the EMD 710G3B-EC prime mover, a turbocharged 16-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine producing 4,300 horsepower. …

Models by: Athearn

The EMD SD90MAC entered production in 1995 as one of the most ambitious locomotive designs ever undertaken by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. The model was conceived around a new 16-cylinder…

The SD90MAC rides on a C-C wheel arrangement, with six Siemens 1TB2830 AC traction motors distributed three to each of two HTCR-2 radial self-steering trucks. …

Models by: Athearn

The SDF40-2 was not an original EMD design but rather a rebuilt and redesignated variant of the EMD SDP40F, a full-width cowl passenger locomotive originally constructed for Amtrak between 1973 and 1…

The SDF40-2 traced its mechanical lineage directly to the SDP40F, which was itself built around the EMD 645E3 prime mover producing 3,000 horsepower. The under…

Models by: Athearn

Amtrak, which had begun operating most intercity passenger rail service in the United States on May 1, 1971, inherited a collection of aging and mechanically diverse diesel locomotives from the priva…

The SDP40F was a full-width cowl unit riding on a Co-Co wheel arrangement, meaning it used two three-axle trucks for a total of six powered axles. Power came f…

Models by: Athearn

The EMD SDP45 was a passenger-configured variant of the highly successful SD45 freight locomotive, produced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between 1967 and 1970. A total of 52 units were …

The SDP45 was powered by the EMD 645E3 prime mover, a 16-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine producing 3,600 horsepower, the same powerplant used in the standa…

Models by: Athearn · Walthers

The EMD SW was one of several closely related switcher locomotive models produced by the Electro-Motive Corporation during the mid-to-late 1930s as part of a broader family of yard and industrial swi…

The SW was powered by the Winton 201-A engine in a straight-eight configuration, producing 600 horsepower and driving the locomotive through a DC electrical tr…

The EMD SW1 was introduced in late 1938 as Electro-Motive Corporation's successor to its earlier SC and SW switcher models. Where those predecessors had relied on engines sourced outside the company,…

The SW1 is powered by a six-cylinder version of EMD's 567 series engine, a two-stroke, mechanically aspirated diesel configured in a 45-degree V arrangement. T…

The EMD SW1000 was a four-axle diesel-electric switcher locomotive produced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division from June 1966 through October 1972. Over the course of its production run, EMD …

The SW1000 was powered by an eight-cylinder version of the EMD 645E prime mover, producing 1,000 horsepower and driving the locomotive through a conventional D…

The EMD SW1001 was developed by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division in the late 1960s as a direct response to shortcomings identified in the earlier SW1000 model. Industrial railroad operators ha…

The SW1001 is powered by an EMD 645E prime mover, a 645-series diesel engine producing 1,000 horsepower. The locomotive rides on a B-B wheel arrangement, with …