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EMD FT
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1939· model of 1350 hp American cab locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Milwaukee Road EMD FT locomotive 1947: Minneapolis Tribune· Public domain
- 2. Korail Class 7000 Diesel Locomotive: Subway06· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The EMD FT is a 1,350-horsepower (1,010 kW) diesel-electric locomotive that was produced between March 1939 and November 1945, by General Motors' Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC), later known as GM Electro-Motive Division (EMD). The "F" stood for Fourteen Hundred (1,400) horsepower (rounded from 1,350) and the "T" for Twin, as it came standard in a two-unit set. The design was developed from the TA model built for the C,RI&P in 1937, and was similar in cylinder count, axle count, length, and layout.
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 87 years ago, in 1939.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2 MW is about 24 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
- 1939–1945
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 555
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway
- top speed
- 153 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B (B-B+B-B for AB set)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q940352, Wikipedia: EMD FT (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.