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Golden City & San Juan #4

  • builder:General Electric
  • model:55 ton centercab
  • type:industrial switcher
  • built:Aug 1966, GE #35149
  • engine:engine
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  • blt for Algoma Steel Railroad #6
    to East Broad Top Railroad #M7
    to Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge
    to Colorado Railroad Museum
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    Denver Rio Grande & Western #3011

  • builder:Electro Motive Division
  • model:GP30
  • type:B-B road switcher
  • built:May 1962, EMD #27222
  • series:948 produced 1961-63
  • engine:EMD 567D3 (16 cyl, 2250 hp)
  • notes:
  • blt Denver Rio Grande & Western #3011
    1 of 28 in DRGW order #7619
    to Colorado Railroad Museum
    lead unit in 1973 movie Runaway
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    Denver Rio Grande & Western #5401

  • builder:Electro Motive Division
  • model:SD40T-2
  • type:C-C "Tunnel Motor"
  • built:Mar 1980, EMD #786264-4
  • series:312 produced 1974-80
  • engine:EMD 645E3 (16 cyl, 3000 hp)
  • notes:
  • blt Denver Rio Grande & Western #5401
    1 of 73 in DRGW order 786264
    to Colorado Railroad Museum
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    sd40T_inset The SD40T-2 is a model of diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in the United States. The SD40T-2 is equipped with a 16-cylinder EMD 645E3 diesel engine producing 3,000 horsepower (2,240 kW). 312 SD40T-2s were built for three railroads in the United States between April 1974 and July 1980. This locomotive and the SD45T-2 are popularly called tunnel motors, but EMD's term is SD40-2 with "cooling system modifications" because they were designed for better engine cooling in mountainous areas. The difference between this locomotive and its non-tunnel motor cousin, the SD40-2, are the radiator intakes and radiator fan grills located at the rear of the locomotive.

    This locomotive model was purchased by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and its subsidiary Cotton Belt. Southern Pacific's version has a 4,400-US-gallon fuel tank and is 70 feet 8 inches long. Rio Grande's version has a smaller 4,000-US-gallon fuel tank.

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    Denver Rio Grande & Western #5771

  • builder:Electro Motive Division
  • model:F9
  • type:B-B passenger power
  • built:Sep 1955, EMD #20527
  • series:101 produced 1953-60
  • engine:EMD 567C (16 cyl, 1750 hp)
  • notes:
  • blt Denver Rio Grande & Western #5771
    1 of 4 A units in DRGW order
    to Colorado Railroad Museum
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    The last operational F-unit on the Rio Grande, F9 Diesel Engine No. 5771 powered the Rio Grande Zephyr passenger train between Denver and Salt Lake City from 1971 to 1983. The Rio Grande Zephyr was the last non-Amtrak intercity passenger train in the United States. In 1984 Nos. 5771 & 5762 powered the Ski Train from Denver to Winter Park and back each weekend. Both were retired that year and donated to the Museum in 1996.

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    Denver Rio Grande & Western #5762

  • builder:Electro Motive Division
  • model:F9B
  • type:B-B cabless booster
  • built:Sep 1955, EMD #20531
  • series:156 produced 1953-60
  • engine:EMD 567C (16 cyl, 1750 hp)
  • notes:
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    to Colorado Railroad Museum
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    Coors Brewing #C988

  • builder:Electro Motive Corporation
  • model:SW900 (rebuilt SW)
  • type:B-B yard switcher
  • built:Mar 1938, EMC #706
  • rebuilt:Jan 1957, EMD #23436
  • series:76 SWs produced 1936-39
  • engine:Winston 201-A (8 cyls, 600 hp)
  • notes:
  • blt Chicago Rock Island & Pacific #514
    1 of 29 SW models built new for CRIP
    rebuilt 1957 to SW900 standards
    to Chicago Rock Island & Pacific #550
    to Coors Brewing #C988
    to Colorado Railroad Museum
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    Early Electro-Motive Corporation switcher locomotives were built with Winton 201-A engines. A total of 175 were built between February 1935 and January 1939. Two main series of locomotives were built, distinguished by engine size and output: the straight-8, 600 hp (450 kW) 'S' series, and the V12, 900 hp (670 kW) 'N' series. Both were offered with either one-piece cast underframes from General Steel Castings of Granite City, Illinois, denoted by 'C' after the power identifier, and fabricated, welded underframes built by EMC themselves, denoted by 'W'. This gave four model series: SC, SW, NC and NW. Further developments of the 900 hp (670 kW) models gave model numbers NC1, NC2, NW1, and NW1A, all of which were practically indistinguishable externally from the others, as well as a pair of unique NW4 models for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and a solitary, twin-engined T transfer locomotive model built for the Illinois Central Railroad.

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    This page was updated on 2023-11-21