SAL 2027

SAL 2027-2028

Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	St. Louis Car Company
Build date	1936
Total produced	2

Specifications
AAR wheel arr	B-2
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)
Prime mover	Winton 201-A
Engine type	2-stroke diesel
Generator	DC generator
Traction motors	DC traction motors
Cylinders	8
Cylinder size	8 in × 10 in (203 mm × 254 mm)
Loco brake	Straight air
Train brakes	Air

Performance figures
Power output	600 hp (450 kW)

Career
Operators	Seaboard Air Line
Locale	North America
Disposition	All scrapped

Seaboard Air Line 2027 and 2028 were lightweight, streamlined Diesel-electric railcars built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1936. Electromotive Corporation supplied the 600 hp (450 kW), eight-cylinder Winton Diesel 201-A prime mover and electric transmission components. The units had a B-2 wheel arrangement, mounted atop a pair of road trucks. The aft section was divided into two separate compartments: one was used to transport baggage and the other served as a small railway post office, or RPO (the forward door, located just behind the radiator louvers, was equipped with a mail hook).

Two units were manufactured for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL). The last usage of these railcars was in May, 1971. Unit 2027 was destroyed in a collision with a gas tanker truck at Arcadia, Florida in 1956. Unit 2028 was renumbered 4900 after the Seaboard-Atlantic Coast Line merger in 1967 and was eventually retired and scrapped after Amtrak took over national passenger service in 1971.

References

Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.

Limited production, export and EMD engined locomotives by Electro-Motive Diesel

Electrics

Industrial, military, export
and narrow gauge

Streamliners

EMD-engined and
license-built units

British Rail	Class 57 Class 67

Córas Iompair Éireann	Class 001 Class 071 Class 121 Class 141 Class 181

CFL (Luxembourg)	Class 1600

Danish State Railways	Class ME Class MX Class MY Class MZ

Iarnród Éireann	Class 201

Indian Railways	Class WDM-4

Israel Railways	JT 42BW JT 42CW

Northern Ireland Railways	Class 111

Norwegian State Railways	NSB Di 4

New Jersey Transit	Alstom PL42AC

RENFE (Spain)	Class 310 Class 319 (early versions) Class 319 (later versions) Class 333 Class 334

SNCB (Belgium)	HLD 51 HLD 52 HLD 53 HLD 54 HLD 55 HLD 61 HLD 62 HLD 65

Swedish State Railways	T41 T43 T44

Vossloh	Euro

Experimentals

See also: List of GM-EMD locomotives

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