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EMD GP28
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1964· model of 1800 hp American diesel locomotive
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what is it?
An EMD GP28 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between March 1964 and November 1965. Power was provided by an EMD 16-567D1 16-cylinder engine which generated 1,800 horsepower (1.34 MW). This locomotive was basically a naturally aspirated version of the EMD GP35.
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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- 1.3 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1964–1965
- number built
- 31
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Illinois Central Railroad, Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, Southern Copper Corporation, Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico, Texas Mexican Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323432, Wikipedia: EMD GP28 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.