EMD GP18

EMD GP18
An EMD GP18 owned and operated by the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
Power type Diesel-electric
Builder General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Model GP18
Build date December 1959 – November 1963
Total produced 405
AAR wheel arr. B-B
Gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm)
Fuel capacity 1,700 US gallons (6,400 l; 1,400 imp gal)
Prime mover EMD 567D1
Aspiration Roots blower
Cylinders 16
Power output 1,800 hp (1.34 MW)
Locale United States, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Saudi Arabia

An EMD GP18 is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between December 1959 and November 1963. Power was provided by an EMD 567D1 16-cylinder engine which generated 1,800 horsepower (1.34 MW). The GP18 replaced the GP9 in EMD's catalog.

350 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads, 40 units were built for Mexican railroads, 12 were built for Brazilian railroads, two units were exported to Peru and one unit was exported to Saudi Arabia.

Original buyers

Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes
Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad
1
300
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
1
6599
GP18M 1,750 horsepower (1,300 kW)
Boston and Maine Railroad
6
1750–1755
Central of Georgia Railway
8
171–178
Chicago and North Western Railway
6
1774–1779
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
11
4700–4707, 4950–4952
Illinois Central Railroad
29
9400–9428
Lehigh Valley Railroad
4
302–305
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
5
460–464
Missouri Pacific Railroad
146
4801–4829, 400–499, 534–550
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
3
1800, 1802, 1804
sold in 2010 to East Penn RR (ESPN)
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Road”)
10
700–709
to Norfolk and Western 2700–2709
Norfolk and Western Railway
48
915–962
Norfolk Southern Railway
17
1–17
Northern Pacific Railway
9
376–384
Phelps Dodge Corporation (New Cornelia Mine)
3
44–46
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
25
1256, 1238–1239, 1329, 1333–1353
1238-1239, 1256 are 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW) GP18M, 1329 is 1,750 horsepower (1,300 kW) GP18M
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
10
400–409
Became Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1967 after a merger with arch rival Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway
1
801
Texas and Pacific Railway
5
1145–1149
Texas Mexican Railway
2
854–855
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway
1
600
National Railways of Mexico
37
7500-7536
Ministry of Communication and Transportation (Mexico)
3
7123-7125
Araraquara Railway(Brazil)
12
1006-1017 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) gauge
Saudi Government Railway
1
1200 GP18M 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW)
South Peru Copper
2
24-25
Total 405

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