Unbuilt: Electro Motive Diesel (EMD)

The insane part is EMD’s are in every mid to large size tug boat out there

Thanks for this informative video! As a matter of interest, some of their electric locos were shipped here to South Africa for use on our heavy haul coal lines and were used successfully for many years, only retiring recently. We classified them as Class 11E, their builder classification was General Motors GM5FC

Can you try unbuilt GE locomotives?

Unrelated question: When will fixing your branch line return?

Is it possbile to have the links to the pdfs or images of the diagrams of these never built locomotives as displayed in the video?

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Glad to see someone finally cover this topic! I love learning about obscure, unbuilt locomotive models, classes, and series that were either never built, or never delivered to a railroad (such as the CP and CNW's SD80MAC orders and the SD49).

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its a shame the Semiens actually could have designed nice Amtrak engines, yet we get stuck with the ugly chargers they made instead.

I've been interested in trains for a very long time, but I never heard of most of these proposed EMD engines! Now, I know of the various unbuilt designs that EMD thought up from the 1930s to the 2000s: proposed E- and F-units, unimplemented GP and SD road switchers (including versions for use in China, of all places), lower-power switchers, many electric locomotives, and even a high-speed train!

Although these designs haven't been built, it is interesting to see how they evolved to create more successful versions: the F39P and F40P to the F40PH, the GP2000 to the GP22ECO and other rebuilds, and so forth.

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What is that loco on the frontispiece? Looks like a fogg or a bennett art, a hybrod s p, gtel cab, alco trucks and t2 tunnel motor rear end,

Interesting video. I only wish that the narrator would slow down when saying the word "railroad". It sounds like "re rd" or "rr rr".

Are you going to do one for unbuilt steam engines?

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Hey guys, want to see something really impressive ?
Bring former class 1 Canadian and American SD40, ship them to Brazil.
Increase frame lenght on both ends about 4, 5 feet.
Shorten fuel tank
Remove dynamic fan on top and put everything under the hood below radiators
Replace CC trucks by BB+BB
Replace existing coupler and draft gear by new, smaller and lowered ones.
Tadammm you got a narrow gauge SD 40 (about 3 feet wide track)

Pulling smaller railcars they look like monsters under steroid.

They purchased their SD45 with DD trucks. The same as on UP centenial DDA40X. Named DM45 with small fuel tank cause there´s no room.

Model railroader, what are you waiting to move to modern narrow gauge. Get out of the 40´
Should see brand new GE . Same thing except with 4 B trucks. They run cabooseless, DPU and roadrailer in very tight clearance tunnel.
If they do in 2023, so can you !

The one unbuilt loco, whose design collapse destroyed EMD (Progress) as a manufacturer of modern 6 axle freight locomotives, was the SD70ACe - tier 4 with a clean 710 2-cycle engine variant. EMD discovered too late that the 710 design was inadequate to comply with the Tier 4 emission requirements.and they needed a 4-cycle engine. When Tier 4 became required in 2015, GE was ready. Not EMD. The 4-cycle SD70 finally started minimum production toward the end of 2017 with a still buggy model. Few were built and many of those are now just stored. Sad end of a great line.

South Korea(KNR/Korail) is the most ordering country for the GT26CW(-2), also there is a EMD locomotive ONLY for Korea....(FT36HCW-2)

Please do another one of these

And do a video on preserved one offs

THE SDP40F HAD NO DESIGN FLAWS! THE LOCOMOTIVES WERE PLACED ON AND WERE FORCED TO RUN ON TRACKS THAT WERE NOR EQUIPPED TO HANDLE THEM! On ALL THE RAILROADS THEY RAN ON, THE TRACK WAS THE CULPRIT IN ALL OF THE DERAILMENTS THEY HAD! IT WASN'T THE LOCOMOTIVES THAT WAS THE PROBLEM, IT WAS THE RAILS THEY RAN ON!

you need to look at the emd units made by com engineering in Australia for queenland rail

I definitely want Athearn doing HO scale models of those!

DIESEL?! Americans are -- even with this looming CLIMATE EMERGENCY - STILL locked into the FOSSIL-FUEL addiction! This whilst the rest of the planet is pursuing transport ELECTRIFICATION (Well anyway MOST of the rest of the world)!

Idea: Streamlined D-D Diesel Passenger locomotive.

Seriously, their should be more D-D diesels in service.

im a swither man myself, and i love those canda made 1s, they where sweetlooking to me

Sd50 is what caused major railways to invest in GE's and why they are so prominent now. The SD50 was a lemon, basically. It really hurt emd's reputation and put GE on the rise.

I call it, In the next 15 years we will get a sd40-5.

I like the close up engine pictures are the 071 class Irish rail emd built loco still going strong today on freight

Can you do a video about the end locos of Irish rail the 121 being first then the 141 class and the 181 class then the bigger 071 class that’s still in service today and the famous 201 class that is similar to the uk class 59/66 but this one came first back in 1994 and the first loco famously being flown over to Ireland on a plane

Can you do a video on Irish rail / Cie emd locos the 121 141 and 181 bring the baby gms 4 axle then the 071 and 201 class being the big gms 6 axle locos

excellent well documented documentary. Being an EMD fan through and through I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. Thanks. I'd sure like to get my hands on a readable hi res drawing of the EMD A32B. I've seen a couple of images of the drawing but they are all low res and not readable.

Wheres: Unbuilt general electric

Where's Unbilt GE

So the sd50 fails and emd doubled down on stupidity and make something that would be nothing but problems