EMD SW1500

EMD SW1500

NIRC 4 an SW1500 performs switching duties on the BNSF line in the Chicago's South Loop near 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
Specifications
AAR wheel arr B-B
Gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length 44 ft 8 in (13.61 m)
Loco weight 248,000 lb (112,491 kg)
Prime mover EMD 645
Engine type V12 2-stroke diesel
Aspiration Roots blower
Displacement 9,072 in3 (149 L)
Generator Main: D32
Traction motors D77/78DC
Cylinders 12
Cylinder size 9.0625 in × 10 in (230.2 mm × 254.0 mm)
Transmission Diesel-electric
Loco brake Straight air
Train brakes Air
Performance figures
Power output 1,500 hp (1,119 kW)
Career
Locale North America South America

The EMD SW1500 was a 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) diesel locomotive intended for switching service and built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between June 1966 and January 1974. 808 examples were constructed. It was closely related to the less powerful EMD SW1000 model, forming a line of switchers powered by the new EMD 645 engine. The SW1500 replaced the SW1200 in the EMD product line, and was in turn replaced by the MP15DC.

The SW1500 was a substantially bulkier locomotive than the SW1200, with a much bulkier frame, larger cab and bigger hood. In many respects it was approaching a road switcher in abilities. While the SW1500 came as standard with AAR switcher trucks, the majority of them were delivered with the optional Flexicoil trucks which permitted speeds up to 60 mph (100 km/h). The SW1500 was, in fact, often operated as a road-switcher for branchline service, and continues in this role today.

The very similar SW1504 was fundamentally a SW1500 mounted on Blomberg trucks, and was produced for the Mexican national railroad, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México.

Original owners SW1500s

Domestic (US/Export) orders
Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes
Alton and Southern Railway 18 1500–1517 #1503 now belongs to the Acadiana Railway
Alcoa Terminal Railroad 1 9
Apalachicola Northern Railroad 8 712-719 #717 & 718 now on the
Central Midland Ry in St Louis
Armco Steel 5 701-705
Ashley, Drew and Northern Railroad 1 150 Now on the
Fordyce and Princeton Railroad
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 In service as BNSF 3456-3470
Cambria and Indiana Railroad 2 15, 16
Chattahoochee Valley Railway 1 101
Chicago Short Line Railroad 2 30, 31
General Motors Electro-Motive Division 9 106-114 106-108 to IU 22-23, 25, 109 to IHB 9222, 110-112 to IU 27-29, 107 is first SW1500 built in 6/66, 113 to ?, 114 to ?
Georgia Power 5 1401–1402, 1405, 1503–1504
W.R. Grace Chemical 2 101, 102
Great Northern Railway 10 200-209 To Burlington Northern 300-309, Most now in service with BNSF
Houston Belt and Terminal Railway 6 50-55
Howe Coal 2 1, 2 To Kansas City Southern
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad 27 9200-9221, 9223-9227 Penn Central Subsidiary company
Illinois Terminal Railroad 7 1509–1515
Indianapolis Union Railway 5 24, 26, 30-32 IU 22-23, 25, 27-29 are former EMD Plant Switchers 106-108, 110-112
Inland Steel 7 119-125
Kansas City Southern Railway 42 1500–1541 In service with KCS
Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad 16 67-83 K&IT 67 is the first production SW1500 7/66, K&IT 83 is the last production SW1500 1/74
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 MT 300 to C&NW 1301
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 Penn Central Subsidiary
Reading Railroad 21 2750–2770
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad 9 1-8,91
Rock Island Line 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 2300-2329 Southern, 2330-2331 Interstate, 2332-2335 New Orleans Terminal, 2336-2337 CNO&TP, 2338-2339 Carolina & Northwestern, 2340-2347 Central of Georgia
Southern Pacific Railroad 204 2450–2480, 2493–2510, 2523–2578, 2591–2689
St. Louis Southwestern Railway 36 2481–2492, 2511–2522, 2579–2590 2511-2522 leased from SP
Tennessee Copper 1 108
Tennessee Eastman Corporation
(Eastman Kodak)
1 1
Terminal Railroad Alabama State Docks 2 681,682
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis 17 1501–1517
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad 4 303-306 NASA Railroad, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Union Railroad 9 1-9
U S Pipe and Foundry 4 51-54
Vermont Railway 1 501 Was sold to the
Lancaster and Chester Railway
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. 2 306, 307
Winifrede Railroad 1 13 Currently owned and operated by Big Eagle Railroad as BER 01
Western Pacific Railroad 3 1501–1503 to Union Pacific - WP 1503 now preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum
Export orders
Amapá Railway, Brazil 1 5

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