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EMD MP15T
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1984· model of 1500 hp American diesel switcher
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Cargill S Superior elevator: Fortunate4now· CC0
- 2. Seaboard System 1230 (MP15T) (10568279736): Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China· CC0
what is it?
The EMD MP15T was a model of diesel-electric switcher locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between October 1984 and November 1987. Instead of a mechanically-aspirated 12-cylinder EMD 645 engine, it used a turbocharged 8-cylinder version of the 645 engine. The external appearance of the locomotive remains similar to other MP15 models.
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 42 years ago, in 1984.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1984–1987
- number built
- 42
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Seaboard System Railroad, Dow Chemical Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323453, Wikipedia: EMD MP15T (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.