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EMD SW7

Index EMD SW7

The EMD SW7 was a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between October 1949 and January 1951. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 63 relations: Alabama Great Southern Railroad, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Belt Railway of Chicago, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, Clinchfield Railroad, Colorado and Southern Railway, Cornwall Railroad, Cow-calf, Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad, Detroit Terminal Railroad, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, Diesel locomotive, Electro-Motive Diesel, EMD 567, EMD NW2, EMD SW9, Erie Railroad, Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, Great Northern Railway (U.S.), Illinois Central Railroad, Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, Kansas City Southern Railway, Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, List of EMD locomotives, Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, Louisiana Midland Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Maine Central Railroad, Milwaukee Road, Missouri Pacific Railroad, Montour Railroad, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Nickel Plate Road, Northern Pacific Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad, Peoria and Eastern Railway, Peoria and Pekin Union Railway, Phelps Dodge, Roots blower, ... Expand index (13 more) »

  2. Locomotives with cabless variants
  3. Railway locomotives introduced in 1949

Alabama Great Southern Railroad

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

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Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad

The Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad is a short-line railroad in northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas.

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996.

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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was a United States Class I railroad formed in 1900, though predecessor railroads had used the ACL brand since 1871.

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Belt Railway of Chicago

The Belt Railway Company of Chicago, headquartered in Bedford Park, Illinois, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States.

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Central Railroad of New Jersey

The Central Railroad of New Jersey, also known as the Jersey Central, Jersey Central Lines or New Jersey Central, was a Class I railroad with origins in the 1830s.

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Charleston and Western Carolina Railway

The Charleston and Western Carolina Railway (C&WC) was formed in 1896 to operate the lines of the former Port Royal and Augusta Railway (PR&A) and the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway (PR&WC).

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century.

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Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad

The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville.

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Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad

The Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad was an industrial switching railroad serving the west side of Chicago and southwest Cook County.

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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States.

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Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway

The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (abbreviated: CNO&TP) is a railroad that owns the Cincinnati Southern Railway from Cincinnati, Ohio, south to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and leases it to the Norfolk Southern Railway system.

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Clinchfield Railroad

The Clinchfield Railroad was an operating and holding company for the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway.

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Colorado and Southern Railway

The Colorado and Southern Railway was an American Class I railroad in the western United States that operated independently from 1898 to 1908, then as part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad until it was absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1981.

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Cornwall Railroad

The Cornwall Railroad, formerly the North Lebanon Railroad, was a railway company in the state of Pennsylvania.

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Cow-calf

In rail transport, a cow-calf (also cow and calf, or in the master and slave) is a set of diesel switcher locomotives.

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Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad

The Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad is a historic railroad that operated in northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan.

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Detroit Terminal Railroad

Detroit Terminal Railroad Company was incorporated in the State of Michigan, United States of America, on December 7, 1905, to own railroad track forming a semi-circle around the City of Detroit.

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Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad

The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad operated from 1905 to 1983 between its namesake cities of Detroit, Michigan, and Ironton, Ohio, via Toledo.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine.

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Electro-Motive Diesel

Electro-Motive Diesel (abbreviated EMD) is a brand of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry.

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EMD 567

The EMD 567 is a line of large medium-speed diesel engines built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division.

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EMD NW2

The EMD NW2 is a, B-B switcher locomotive manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. EMD SW7 and EMD NW2 are b-B locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives of the United States, Electro-Motive Division locomotives, locomotives with cabless variants, Shunting locomotives and standard gauge locomotives of the United States.

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EMD SW9

The EMD SW9 is a model of diesel switcher locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between November 1950 and December 1953. EMD SW7 and EMD SW9 are b-B locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives of the United States, Electro-Motive Division locomotives, locomotives with cabless variants, Shunting locomotives and standard gauge locomotives of the United States.

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Erie Railroad

The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Northeastern United States, originally connecting Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey, with Lake Erie at Dunkirk, New York.

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Georgia Southern and Florida Railway

The Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, also known as the Suwanee River Route from its crossing of the Suwanee River, was founded in 1885 as the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad and began operations between Macon, GA and Valdosta, GA in 1889, extending to Palatka, FL in 1890.

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Great Northern Railway (U.S.)

The Great Northern Railway was an American Class I railroad.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States.

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Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad is a Class III railroad in the United States.

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Kansas City Southern Railway

The Kansas City Southern Railway Company was an American Class I railroad.

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Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad

Incorporated on April 17, 1886, at Marblehead, Ohio, the Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad (L&M) was a short standard gauge railroad that spanned about seven miles (11.3 km) in length.

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Lehigh Valley Railroad

The Lehigh Valley Railroad was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Northeastern Pennsylvania to major consumer markets in Philadelphia, New York City, and elsewhere.

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List of EMD locomotives

The following is a list of locomotives produced by the Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC), and its successors General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD) and Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD). EMD SW7 and list of EMD locomotives are Electro-Motive Division locomotives.

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Louisiana and Arkansas Railway

The Louisiana and Arkansas Railway was a railroad that operated in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.

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Louisiana Midland Railway

The Louisiana Midland Railway, was a Class III railroad operating in the US state of Louisiana.

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Louisville and Nashville Railroad

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.

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Maine Central Railroad

The Maine Central Railroad was a U. S. class 1 railroad in central and southern Maine.

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Milwaukee Road

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

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Missouri Pacific Railroad

The Missouri Pacific Railroad, commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River.

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Montour Railroad

The Montour Railroad was a short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service in southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway

The Nashville, Chattanooga and St.

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New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad

The New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad was a Class I railroad in Louisiana and Mississippi in the United States.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Nickel Plate Road

The New York, Chicago and St.

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Northern Pacific Railway

The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Peoria and Eastern Railway

The Peoria and Eastern Railway was incorporated on February 21, 1890, for the purpose of constructing or acquiring a railway between Pekin, Illinois, and Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Peoria and Pekin Union Railway

The Peoria and Pekin Union Railway is a switching and terminal railroad in Illinois that began operating in 1881 and was leased to the Tazewell and Peoria Railroad in 2004.

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Phelps Dodge

Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 as an import-export firm by Anson Greene Phelps and his two sons-in-law William Earle Dodge, Sr. and Daniel James.

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Roots blower

The Roots blower is a positive displacement lobe pump which operates by pumping a fluid with a pair of meshing lobes resembling a set of stretched gears.

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Southern Railway (U.S.)

The Southern Railway (also known as Southern Railway Company) was a class 1 railroad based in the Southern United States between 1894 and 1982, when it merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) to form the Norfolk Southern Railway.

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St. Louis Southwestern Railway

The St.

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St. Louis–San Francisco Railway

The St.

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Switcher locomotive

A switcher locomotive (American English), shunter locomotive (British English), or shifter locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad terminology) is a locomotive used for maneuvering railway vehicles over short distances. EMD SW7 and switcher locomotive are Shunting locomotives.

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Texas and Pacific Railway

The Texas and Pacific Railway Company (known as the T&P) was created by federal charter in 1871 with the purpose of building a southern transcontinental railroad between Marshall, Texas, and San Diego, California.

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Two-stroke diesel engine

A two-stroke diesel engine is a diesel engine that uses compression ignition in a two-stroke combustion cycle.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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Union Railroad (Pittsburgh)

Union Railroad is a Class III switching railroad located in Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania.

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V12 engine

A V12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where two banks of six cylinders are arranged in a V configuration around a common crankshaft.

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Wabash Railroad

The Wabash Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated in the mid-central United States.

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Weyerhaeuser

The Weyerhaeuser Company is an American timberland company which owns nearly of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada.

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Woodward Iron Company

The Woodward Iron Company (located in the area between Hueytown, Brighton, and Bessemer, Alabama) was founded on December 31, 1881, by brothers William and Joseph Woodward.

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Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad

The Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad is a short-line railroad subsidiary of Midwest & Bluegrass Rail that operates freight trains between Youngstown, Ohio and Darlington, Pennsylvania, United States.

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See also

Locomotives with cabless variants

Railway locomotives introduced in 1949

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_SW7

Also known as EMD TR4.

, Southern Railway (U.S.), St. Louis Southwestern Railway, St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, Switcher locomotive, Texas and Pacific Railway, Two-stroke diesel engine, Union Pacific Railroad, Union Railroad (Pittsburgh), V12 engine, Wabash Railroad, Weyerhaeuser, Woodward Iron Company, Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad.