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EMD MP15AC
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1975· model of 1500 hp American diesel switcher
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EMD MP15AC UPY 1448: Morven· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Cp1422Mp15AcMilw2007: Rrshooter· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. DCR MP15AC 1564 and 1551 SB Dover DE: Dough4872· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. General American Transportation Corporation MP15AC diesel locomotives, Numbers 302 & 303, July 2013: Jerry Huddleston· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The EMD MP15AC is a 1,500 hp (1,120 kW) diesel road switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between August 1975 and August 1984. A variant of the EMD MP15DC with an AC/DC transmission, 246 examples were built, including 25 for export to Mexico, and four built in Canada.
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 51 years ago, in 1975.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1975–1984
- number built
- 246
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Motors Diesel, Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- nicknames
- Little Beaver
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323451, Wikipedia: EMD MP15AC (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.