The EMD SW1500 is a 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) diesel-electric switcher locomotive 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]
Quick Facts Type and origin, Power type ...
| EMD SW1500 |
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| Power output | 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) |
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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]
More information Domestic (US/Export) orders, Railroad ...
| Domestic (US/Export) orders |
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| Railroad |
Quantity |
Road numbers |
| Alton and Southern Railway |
18 |
1500–1517 |
| Alcoa Terminal Railroad |
1 |
9 |
| Apalachicola Northern Railroad |
8 |
712–719 |
| Armco Steel |
5 |
701–705 |
| Ashley, Drew and Northern Railroad |
1 |
150 |
| Angelina and Neches River Railroad |
1 |
1500 |
| 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 |
| Chicago Short Line Railroad |
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 |
| Houston Belt and Terminal Railway |
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 |
| Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad |
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 |
| 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 |
| Union Railroad |
9 |
1–9 |
| U S Pipe and Foundry |
4 |
51–54 |
| Vermont Railway |
1 |
501 |
| Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. |
2 |
306, 307 |
| Winifrede Railroad |
1 |
13 |
| Western Pacific Railroad |
3 |
1501–1503 |
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| Export orders |
| Amapá Railway, Brazil |
1 |
5 |
| Total | 808 | |
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Foster, Gerald L. (1996). A field guide to trains of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 11, 16. ISBN 0-395-70112-0.
- 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.
