EMD SD45

what is it?

The SD45 is a six-axle diesel-electric locomotive class built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1965 and 1971. It has an EMD 645E3 twenty-cylinder engine generating 3,600 hp (2,680 kW) on the same frame as the SD38, SD39, SD40, and SDP40. As of 2023, most SD45s have been retired, scrapped, or rebuilt to SD40-2 standards.

who runs it

base stats

• speed 114 km/htop speed
• power 2.7 MWpower output
• weight 167 tin working order
• built 1,260made in total

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 61 years ago, in 1965.
• 🚗2.7 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 28 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏19.8 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

1965–1971

number built

1,260

kind

Diesel

traction

diesel

origin

🇺🇸 United States

builders

Electro-Motive Diesel

operators

Norfolk Southern Railway

top speed

114 km/h

power

2.7 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

C-C

length

19.8 m

weight

167 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.