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EMD GP16
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Seaboard Coast Line Railroad· from 1979· series of locomotives rebuilt from exisiting GP7, GP9 & GP18
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Buckingham Branch Railroad GP16 rebuild: William Grimes at English Wikipedia· Public domain
- 2. USAX 4635 GP16: William Grimes at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. OGRE 219 (MP15) and OGRE 1736 (GP16): sodai gomi· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The EMD GP16 is a series of rebuilt diesel-electric locomotives, a result of a remanufacturing program initiated by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL) in an effort to spare the cost of purchasing new motive power in the late 1970s. This involved the rebuilding of their aging fleet of EMD GP7, GP9 and GP18 road switchers (many of which were over twenty years old).
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 47 years ago, in 1979.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.1 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
- 1979–1982
- number built
- 155
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 17.1 m
- weight
- 117 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5514141, Wikipedia: EMD GP16 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.