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EMD FP7

🇨🇦 Canada ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1949· model of 1500 hp North American diesel cab locomotive

🚆 multiple unit diesel
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. CGW 116A at Oelwein: Feddacheenee· CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. 2. WP 805A with the California Zephyr on Altamont Pass, March 1970: Drew Jacksich from San Jose, CA, The Republic of California· CC BY-SA 2.0
  3. 3. Atlanta and West Point FP7 554 with Georgia RR Train 2 at Camak, GA in October 1967 (25437489096): railfan 44· Public domain
  4. 4. EMD FP7A 9880 at Honesdale Pennsylvania: Kether83· CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. 5. Georgia Railroad GP40 751 and Atlanta and West Point FP7 554, Atlanta, GA on October 26, 1968 (26058319785): railfan 44· Public domain
  6. 6. Georgia RR GP9 1041, then WRofA GP7 530, A&WP FP7 502, Georgia GP7 1029, F, Geep near Madison, GA on November 25, 1967 (24633275626): railfan 44· Public domain
  7. 7. Louisville and Nashville 613 (FP7) idling on storage track of Atlanta Union Station on April 15, 1963 (22482261325): railfan 44· Public domain
  8. 8. Verde Railroad - FP7 1512 - 1510 - 01: Ccoolest· CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. 9. Western Railway of Alabama FP7 503 with Train 33, The Piedmont Limited, as it waits in its stall at the Atlanta Georgia Terminal Station. SAL coach at right on April 15, 1963. (25423925722): Marty Bernard from U.S.A.· Public domain
  10. 10. VIA 1423 at Field, BC in December 1981 (34895210833): Marty Bernard from U.S.A.· Public domain
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
EMD FP7, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Feddacheenee· CC BY-SA 3.0

what is it?

The EMD FP7 is a 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW), B-B dual-service passenger and freight-hauling diesel locomotive produced between June 1949 and December 1953 by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant, excepting locomotives destined for Canada, in which case final assembly was at GMD's plant in London, Ontario. The FP7 was essentially EMD's F7A locomotive extended by four feet to give greater water capacity for the steam generator for heating passenger trains.

base stats

  • power 1.1 MWpower output
  • weight 118 tin working order
  • built 381made 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 77 years ago, in 1949.
  • 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 16.8 m long: about 4 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
1949–1953
number built
381
kind
Diesel-electric
traction
diesel
origin
🇨🇦 Canada
builders
General Motors Diesel, Electro-Motive Diesel
top speed
—
power
1.1 MW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
Bo'Bo'
length
16.8 m
weight
118 t

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

Sources: Wikidata Q3045966, Wikipedia: EMD FP7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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