#3553
EMD RS1325
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1960· model of 2 light road switchers
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Atlantic and Western No. 30 at the Illinois Railway Museum - September 2024: Joseph Gage· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The RS1325 is a North American locomotive model built by Electro-Motive Division, having characteristics of both a switcher locomotive and a road switcher locomotive. Only two units were built. In 1960, EMD built a pair of light road switcher locomotives, consisting of switcher carbodies and mechanicals on longer roadswitcher frames.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 988 kW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 15.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- retired
- 2020
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 988 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 15.9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323457, Wikipedia: EMD RS1325 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.