#3110· GM-EMD F9
EMD F9
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1953· model of 1750 hp North American diesel cab locomotive
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Crm california zephyr: Laura Scudder· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Denison July 2016 12 (Missouri–Kansas–Texas EMD F9AM No. 401B and cabooses): Michael Barera· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Denison July 2016 13 (Missouri–Kansas–Texas EMD F9AM No. 401B): Michael Barera· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Denison March 2010 (Missouri–Kansas–Texas EMD F9AM No. 401B): Kevin· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The EMD F9 is a 1,750 horsepower (1,300 kW) Diesel-electric locomotive produced between February 1953 and May 1960 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (EMD) and General Motors Diesel (GMD). It succeeded the F7 model in GM-EMD's F-unit sequence. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- Top speed is 1.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 15.2 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1953–1960
- number built
- 156
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- General Motors Diesel, Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- 169 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 15.2 m
- Dutch name
- GM-EMD F9
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2287249, Wikipedia: EMD F9 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.