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EMD GP40-based passenger locomotives
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· Passenger diesel locomotive class
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EMD GP40 B&M 339 Wells Maine: BMRR at en.wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. New Jersey Transit train 53 to Port Jervis: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
Passenger locomotives derived from the EMD GP40 diesel-electric locomotive have been, and continue to be, used by multiple passenger railroads in North America. For passenger service, the locomotives required extra components for providing steam or head-end power (HEP) for heating, lighting and electricity in passenger cars. Most of these passenger locomotives were rebuilt from older freight locomotives, while some were built as brand new models.
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
- Top speed is 1.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 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
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- number built
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- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- 169 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q5323438, Wikipedia: EMD GP40-based passenger locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.