EMD GP39

EMD GP39

Copper Basin Railway #505 at Hayden, Arizona in 2010.

Type and origin Power type Diesel-electric Builder General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Model GP39 Build date June 1969 - July 1970 Total produced 23

Specifications Gauge 4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Prime mover EMD 645E3 Engine type V12 diesel engine Cylinders 12

Performance figures Power output 2,300 hp (1.72 MW)

Career Locale United States

The EMD GP39 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between June 1969 and July 1970. The locomotive's power was provided by a turbocharged EMD 645E3 12-cylinder engine which generated 2,300 hp (1.72 MW)^[1][2]

23 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads.^[3]

Burlington Northern Railway later rebuilt GP30, GP35, and GP40 locomotives that it classified as GP39s, but they were not built as such by GM/EMD. Twenty of the original 23 were built for the Chesapeake & Ohio, while the other buyers were Kennecott Copper (2) and Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay (1).

References

1. Marre, Louis A. & Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1989). The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-89024-088-4. LCCN 88083625. OCLC 19959644.
2. Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.
3. Sarberenyi, Robert. EMD GP39 Original Owners. Retrieved on August 27, 2006

External links

Media related to EMD GP39 locomotives at Wikimedia Commons

• Sarberenyi, Robert. EMD GP39 Original Owners