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EMD SW1001
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1968· model of 1000 hp American diesel switcher
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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Switcher 107: ...some guy· CC BY 2.0
- 2. Korail 2100 Class Diesel Locomotive: Subway06· CC BY 3.0
- 3. Granite State Railway (P&L) SW1001 1590 and SW1000 105: GP38-252· CC BY 4.0
- 4. Palmetto Railways (ex-Port Royal Railroad) SW1001 no. 1001 (1): The ed17· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Palmetto Railways (ex-Port Royal Railroad) SW1001 no. 1001 (2): The ed17· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The EMD SW1001 is a 1,000-horsepower (750 kW) diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between September 1968 and June 1986. A total of 230 were constructed, mainly for North American railroads and industrial operations. The SW1001 was developed because EMD's SW1000 model had proved unpopular among industrial railroad customers, as the heights of its walkway and cab eaves were much greater than those of earlier EMD switcher models.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- 746 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1968–1986
- number built
- 230
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323483, Wikipedia: EMD SW1001 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.