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EMD SDP35
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1964· model of 2500 hp Co′Co′ American diesel locomotive
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Seaboard Air Line EMD SDP35 1114: YamahaFreak· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Seaboard Air Line EMD SDP35 1114 at Hamlet, North Carolina, 06-02-2023: Seaboarder3023· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. L&N SDP35 1296, February 1980: Roger Puta· Public domain
what is it?
The EMD SDP35 is a model of 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between July 1964 and September 1965. Power was provided by an EMD 567D3A 16-cylinder engine which generated 2,500 horsepower (1.9 MW). Essentially this locomotive was an EMD SD35 equipped with a steam generator, located in the extended long hood end, for passenger use.
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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.9 MW is about 22 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 27 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.3 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
- 1964–1965
- number built
- 35
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- top speed
- 153 km/h
- power
- 1.9 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
- length
- 18.3 m
- weight
- 163 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323478, Wikipedia: EMD SDP35 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.