The EMD SW1000 was a model of 4-axle diesel switcher locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between June 1966 and October 1972. Power was provided by an EMD 645E 8-cylinder engine which generated . This locomotive was built on the same common frame as the EMD SW1500, giving it an overall length of . Over one-third of SW1000 production went to the Burlington Northern Railroad.
History The SW1000 was taller than previous EMD switchers, which posed a problem for industrial customers: at many facilities, tight clearances existed, and the SW1000 exceeded them. As a result, most production went to railroads, not industries. EMD corrected this problem with the SW1001, which was an SW1000 with its height and walkways lowered for better clearance.
A total of 114 EMD SW1000s were built for railroads and industrial operations in the United States. One was exported to Jamaica for a mining operation and four were exported to industrial operators in Mexico.
As at January 2014, two EMD SW1000s are operated by Via Rail at its Montreal Maintenance Centre.
Preservation
BNSF #3613 (former BN #388) is preserved at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon.
SW1000 Locomotives as built by EMD Railroad Quantity Road numbers NotesAltos Hornos de Mexico2 132, 137 Cementos Anahuac (Mexico) 1 No Number Transferred to Cemex acquired Anahuac in 1987Appalachian Power 1 1 Now owned by Roanoke Chapter NRHS.Armco Steel 1 B81 Birmingham Southern Railroad810-17 15 to 17 scrapped 1973; 13 became 213 and sold to Watco, Inc.Burlington Northern 43 375-394, 427-449 #442 rebuilt without cab; transferred to BNSF with one sold to GATX Rail Locomotive Group Chicago Burlington and Quincy 12 9310-9321 to Burlington Northern 574-585 Ferrocarril Chihuahua Cellulose (Mexico) 1 1811 to FerromexCorn Products International 2 68–69 Cuyahoga Valley Railroad 1 1050 Denver and Rio Grande Western10 140-149 Detroit Edison 1 216 Duluth and Northeastern 1 35 to Cloquet Terminal Railroad Eastman Kodak 1 8 E I DuPont Nemours and Company 2 106-107 Operated by the Southern Railroad of New Jersey at the Chemours Chambers works, sold to SMS rail. 106 undergoing rebuild, 107 operating. General Motors-Central Foundry Division 1 No Number Great Lakes Steel Corporation 1 58 Hampton and Branchville 1 120 Houston Belt and Terminal 3 40-42 Inland Steel 4 115-118 All sold to Via RailJones and Laughlin Steel 2 102–103 Kaiser Bauxite (Jamaica) 1 5109 Mobil Chemical 1 2 New Orleans Public Belt 6 101-106 Public Service Company of Indiana 1 1 Wisconsin Electric Power 1 No Number Youngstown Sheet and Tube 10 905-914 Total 119
External links
See also List of GM-EMD locomotives
References
Diesel Era Volume 3 Number 1 January/February 1992 pp37–49