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EMD F59PH

🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1988· Model of locomotive

🛤️ diesel locomotive diesel
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. GO Transit F59PH 554 Oakville: Ibagli· Public domain
  2. 2. City of High Point with the Piedmont at Salisbury, August 2016 (cropped): Nstrainman1006 at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. 20161006 01 AMT @ Gare Lucien L'Allier (26980512018): David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA· CC BY 2.0
  4. 4. AMT 1341, 1344 (24703793457): Dan from PQ, Canada· CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. 5. AMTCandiac: Mtlfiredude· CC BY-SA 3.0
  6. 6. Amtcandiaclula: Mtlfiredude· CC BY-SA 3.0
  7. 7. AMT 526 (6020790891): Dan from PQ, Canada· CC BY-SA 2.0
  8. 8. Inbound to Union Station (53934597616): Guo Rui Pei from Chicago, United States· Public domain
  9. 9. METX 99 on a MD-N train to Chicago: Oliver Withers· CC0
  10. 10. 27.08.24 Mascouche 1345 (54056720401) (cropped): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
EMD F59PH, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Ibagli· Public domain

what is it?

The EMD F59PH is a four-axle 3,000 hp (2 MW) B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division from 1988 to 1994. A variant, the F59PHI, was produced from 1994 to 2001. The F59PH was originally built for GO Transit commuter operation in the Toronto region.

who runs it

GO Transit

base stats

  • speed 177 km/htop speed
  • power 2.4 MWpower output
  • built 73made in total

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 38 years ago, in 1988.
  • Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
  • 2.4 MW is about 28 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built
1988–2001
number built
73
kind
Diesel-electric
traction
diesel
origin
🇨🇦 Canada
builders
Electro-Motive Diesel
operators
GO Transit
top speed
177 km/h
power
2.4 MW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
Bo'Bo'
length
17.7 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q5323410, Wikipedia: EMD F59PH (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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