The EMD Model 40 was a two-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC), and its corporate successor, General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) between August 1940 and April 1943. Nicknamed "critters", eleven examples of this locomotive were built. Powered by twin General MotorsDetroit Diesel6-71 diesel engines, which produce a combined 300 horsepower (224 kW). Original buyers included the Electro-Motive Corporation/EMD Plant #2 switcher, Defense Plant Corporation-4 units, the United States Army 3 units, and the United States Navy 2 units, General Motors Cleveland Diesel Division 1 unit.
Known locomotives[]
s/n 1134 Built as EMC 1134 Demonstrator, Later Devco Railway #20, retired to Museum of Industry, Stellarton, Nova Scotia
s/n 1308 Built for US Rubber, to Old Ben Coal, scrapped
s/n 2287 Built as USN #4, used during WWII by the Naval Ordinance Plant in York, PA to haul bomb casings. Remained on site and served the American Machine and Foundry Company (AMF) and subsequently Harley-Davidson. Now on display at the York County History Center's Agricultural and Industrial Museum in York, Pennsylvania.
EMD #2287 on display at the York County History Center's Agricultural and Industrial Museum.
s/n 2288 Built as USN #56-00323, to McDonnell Douglas, retired to Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California
s/n 2289 Built as GM Cleveland (unknown number), scrapped