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EMC AB6
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1940· model of 2 American diesel-electric locomotives built for the Rock Island
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CRI&P 751 (AB6) at Joliet, IL on October 16, 1966: Roger Puta· Public domain
what is it?
The EMC AB6 was a type of diesel locomotive built exclusively for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (the "Rock Island Line") by General Motors' Electro-Motive Corporation and delivered in June 1940. Two examples were built, numbered #750 and #751. They were built for the Rocky Mountain Rocket passenger train, which travelled as a unified train from Chicago, Illinois, to Limon, Colorado, which then divided.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 86 years ago, in 1940.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1940
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- New: A1A-3
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323370, Wikipedia: EMC AB6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.