EMD GP38AC

LLPX 2210

Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Model	GP38AC
Build date	February 1970 - December 1971
Total produced	261

Specifications
AAR wheel arr	B-B
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

Career
Locale	United States

An EMD GP38AC is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between February 1970 and December 1971. It was basically a GP38 with an AR10 alternator instead of the GP38's normal generator.

261 examples of this model were built; railroads that purchased this model include CP, DT&I, GTW, GM&O, IC, LV, L&N, N&W, SLSF, SOU and Pacific Power and Light.

Many were upgraded to full GP38-2 status with the Dash 2 modular electrical cabinet.

Original Buyers

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
CP Rail	21	3000-3020
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad	14	210-217	215 renumbered 209, 216 renumbered 208, 217 renumbered 207; to Grand Trunk Western Railroad 3207-6214
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad	14	215-220	To Grand Trunk Western Railroad 6215-6220
Grand Trunk Western Railroad	12	5800-5811
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad	13	721-733	To Illinois Central Gulf Railroad 9540-9552
Illinois Central Railroad	20	9500-9519
Lehigh Valley Railroad	4	310-313	To Conrail 7656-7659
Louisville and Nashville Railroad	30	4020-4049	To Seaboard System Railroad 6241-6270
Norfolk and Western Railway	60	4100-4159	To Norfolk Southern. All have either been retired, scrapped, or rebuilt.
Pacific Power & Light Company	1	11
Southern Railway	56	2823–2878	To Norfolk Southern. All but 3 have either been retired, scrapped, or rebuilt.
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway	30	633-662	651 wrecked, remaining to Burlington Northern Railroad 2110-2138

References

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.
Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.
Sarberenyi, Robert. EMD GP38 and GP38AC Original Owners

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to EMD GP38AC locomotives.

4-axle general purpose diesel locomotives built by GM-EMD

BL1 BL2 BL20-2 GP7, GP7B GP9, GP9B GP15-1 GP15AC GP15T GP15D GP18 GP20 GP20D GP22ECO GP28 GP30, GP30B GP35 GP38 GP38AC GP38-2/38-2L/38-2W GP38H-3 GP39 GP39DC GP39X GP39-2 GP40 GP40X GP40-2 GP40P GP40P-2 GP40TC GP49 GP50 GP59 GP60, GP60B, GP60M

(See also: List of GM-EMD locomotives)

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