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EMD LWT12
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1955· streamlined diesel locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
what is it?
The EMD LWT12 is a diesel–electric power car that was built in 1955 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD), to pull a lightweight passenger trainset. The General Motors Company developed both components under the project name, Train Y, but later marketed them as the Aerotrain. Diesel power was provided by an EMD 567C 12-cylinder engine, which produced 1,200 hp (890 kW).
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- 895 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1955
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Motors
- designer
- Chuck Jordan
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad
- top speed
- 134 km/h
- power
- 895 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'1'
- length
- 16.5 m
- weight
- 85.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323450, Wikipedia: EMD LWT12 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.