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EMD SW1504
🇲🇽 Mexico ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1973· model of 1500 hp North American diesel switcher
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sw1504: KLWhitehead· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The EMD SW1504 is a 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. The type was sold only to Mexico's national railroad, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México; 60 examples were built between May and August 1973.
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 53 years ago, in 1973.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14 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
- 1973
- number built
- 60
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 14 m
- weight
- 113 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4037802, Wikipedia: EMD SW1504 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.