Model of 1500 hp American diesel switching locomotive
EMD SW1500 NIRC 4 performs switching duties near Chicago's Union Station.
Type and origin Power type Diesel Builder General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)Model SW1500 Build date June 1966 to January 1974 Total produced 808
Performance figures Power output 1,500 hp (1,119 kW)
The EMD SW1500 is a 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) Diesel-electric locomotive intended for switching service and built by General Motors ' Electro-Motive Division from 1966 to 1974.[1] The SW1500 replaced the SW1200 in the EMD product line. Many railroads regularly used SW1500s for road freight service.[1]
It is similar in appearance to the EMD SW1000 model which has a different engine and has one exhaust stack while the SW1500 has two.[1] [2]
Original Owners [ ]
Domestic (US/Export) orders
Railroad
Quantity
Road numbers
Alton and Southern Railway
18
1500–1517
1
9
Apalachicola Northern Railroad
8
712–719
Armco Steel
5
701–705
1
150
Angelina and Neches River Railroad
1
1500
Armco Steel
5
701-705
Belt Railway of Chicago
3
530–532
Burlington Northern Railroad
15
310–324
Cambria and Indiana Railroad
2
15, 16
Chattahoochee Valley Railway
1
101
2
30, 31
General Motors Electro-Motive Division
9
106–114
Georgia Power
5
1401–1402, 1405, 1503–1504
W.R. Grace Chemical
2
101, 102
Great Northern Railway
10
200-209
6
50-55
Howe Coal
2
1, 2
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
27
9200-9221, 9223-9227
Illinois Terminal Railroad
7
1509–1515
Indianapolis Union Railway
5
24, 26, 30–32
Inland Steel
7
119-125
Kansas City Southern Railway
42
1500–1541
16
67-83
Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad
2
23, 24
Longview, Portland and Northern Railway
1
130
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
30
5000–5029
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway
2
36–37
Minnesota Taconite US Steel
6
949–954
Minnesota Transfer Railway
7
300-306
Mississippi Export Railroad
1
64
Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad
6
50-55
Missouri Pacific Railroad
4
1518–1521
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad
3
151–153
Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad
2
160, 161
Penn Central
84
9500–9583
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
40
1534–1563, 9280–9289
Reading Railroad
21
2750–2770
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
9
1-8,91
Rock Island
10
940–949
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway
2
500,600
St. Mary's Railroad
1
503
Sandersville Railroad
2
100,300
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
46
315–360
Southern Railway
48
2300–2347
Southern Pacific Railroad
204
2450–2480, 2493–2510, 2523–2578, 2591–2689
St. Louis Southwestern Railway
36
2481–2492, 2511–2522, 2579–2590
Tennessee Copper
1
108
Tennessee Eastman Corporation (Eastman Kodak )
1
1
2
681,682
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
17
1501–1517
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
4
303–306
Union Railroad
9
1–9
U S Pipe and Foundry
4
51–54
Vermont Railway
1
501
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.
2
306, 307
1
13
Western Pacific Railroad
3
1501–1503
Export orders
Amapá Railway , Brazil
1
5
Total
808
See also [ ]
List of GM-EMD locomotives
References [ ]
Dover, Dan (January–February 1974). "808 SW1500's". Extra 2200 South : 22–24.
GATX Rail Locomotive Group. "SW1500" . Archived from the original on September 6, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2005 .
Hayden, Bob, ed. (1980). Model Railroader Cyclopedia-Volume 2: Diesel Locomotives . Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-89024-547-9 .
Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide . Kalmbach Publishing Co., Milwaukee, WI. ISBN 0-89024-026-4 .
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