#3063
EMD MRS-1
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1952· Military Road Switcher locomotive built by EMD
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Heber Valley EMD MRS-1 1813: JerAnderson· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
The EMD MRS-1 is a type of diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) in 1952. They were built with multigauge trucks and to a narrow loading gauge for service anywhere in the world in the event of war. Thirteen of the locomotives were built, with serial numbers 15873–15885.
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 74 years ago, in 1952.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1952
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Transportation Corps
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3045968, Wikipedia: EMD MRS-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.