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EMD NW5
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1946· model of 13 American road-switcher diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GN 192 Duluth: Keon McGarvey· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The EMD NW5 is a 1,000 hp (750 kW) road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between December 1946 and February 1947. A total of 13 were produced, of which the majority (ten locomotives) went to the Great Northern Railway. A further two were delivered to the Union Belt of Detroit (though lettered "Fort Street Union Depot") as their #1 and #2, one of which is still in existence today at the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum.
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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- 746 kW is about 9 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
- 1946–1947
- number built
- 13
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Motors, Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323456, Wikipedia: EMD NW5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.