EMD SW1500

what is it?

The EMD SW1500 is a 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division from 1966 to 1974. The SW1500 replaced the SW1200 in the EMD product line. Many railroads regularly used SW1500s for road freight service.

base stats

• power 1.1 MWpower output
• weight 113 tin working order
• built 808made 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 60 years ago, in 1966.
• 🚗1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏13.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built

1966–1974

number built

808

kind

Diesel

traction

diesel

origin

🇺🇸 United States

builders

Electro-Motive Diesel

top speed

—

power

1.1 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

Bo'Bo'

length

13.4 m

weight

113 t

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