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EMD DD35
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1963· model of American Do′Do′ diesel locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. What an awesome lash-up! DD35A, DD35B, DD35B, GP30B- 17,225 horsepower. March 1979: sodai gomi· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The EMD DD35 was a 5,000 horsepower (3,700 kW) diesel-electric locomotive of D-D wheel arrangement built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Railroad. A total of thirty DD35 locomotives were built from 1963 to 1964, with three going to the Southern Pacific, and the remaining twenty-seven to the Union Pacific. A cab-equipped variant, the DD35A (also called the DDA35), was built in 1965, exclusively for the Union Pacific.
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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- 3.7 MW is about 44 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 39 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 18 years (1963–1981).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1963–1965
- in service from
- 1963
- retired
- 1981
- status
- retired
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 3.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Do’Do’
- weight
- 236 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323395, Wikipedia: EMD DD35 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.