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EMD SDP45
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1967· North American diesel locomotive class
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. BN SDP45 6597: Wikimedia Commons· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. EL 3643 (SDP45) at Hammond, IN yards on December 22, 1969 (22510376536): railfan 44· Public domain
what is it?
The SDP45 is a six-axle, C-C, 3,600-horsepower (2,680 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. It was a passenger-hauling version of the SD45 on a stretched locomotive frame with an extended, squared-off long hood at the rear, aft of the radiators, giving space for a steam generator for passenger train heating. This steam generator placement followed the pattern set by the SDP35 and SDP40.
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 2.7 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 30 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1967–1970
- number built
- 52
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 2.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
- length
- 21.3 m
- weight
- 180 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323481, Wikipedia: EMD SDP45 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.