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EMD SDP40
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1966· model of 20 North American 3000-hp passenger diesel locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TFM 1317 EMD SDP40: terry cantrell· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. KCS 3057: terry cantrell· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The SDP40 is a 6-axle passenger diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) between June 1966 and May 1970.
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 60 years ago, in 1966.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 28 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1966–1970
- status
- in service
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Great Northern Railway, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
- top speed
- 153 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- weight
- 167 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323479, Wikipedia: EMD SDP40 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.