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Southern Pacific 6051
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1954· preserved EMD E9 locomotive
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- 1. Southern Pacific 6051: N2xjk at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
Southern Pacific 6051 is an EMD E9 diesel locomotive. It was one of nine E9s built for SP by EMD in December 1954 for the Southern Pacific (SP).
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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 13 minutes.
- 1.8 MW is about 21 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 24 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 14 years (1955–1969).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1954
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 1969
- status
- in service
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Southern Pacific Transportation Company
- top speed
- 188 km/h
- power
- 1.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- A1A-A1A
- length
- 21.3 m
- weight
- 143 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7570272, Wikipedia: Southern Pacific 6051 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.