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EMD NW3
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1939· model of 7 American road-switcher diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GN 181-Whitefish: Sturmovik· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The EMD NW3 was a 1,000 hp (750 kW) diesel-electric road switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between November 1939 and March 1942. A total of seven were built for the Great Northern Railway, the sole original purchaser; they were originally numbered #5400-5406 and later renumbered #175-181. The locomotive fundamentally consists of an NW2 hood, prime mover (a V12 EMD 567 diesel engine) and main generator on a long frame with road trucks (Blomberg Bs).
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.
- 746 kW is about 9 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
- 1939–1942
- retired
- 1968
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 7
- kind
- Diesel Electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Great Northern Railway
- top speed
- 129 km/h
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323455, Wikipedia: EMD NW3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.