SAL 2027

SAL 2027-2028
Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	St. Louis Car Company
Build date	1936
Total produced	2
Specifications
AAR wheel arr.	B-2
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)
Prime mover	Winton 201-A
Engine type	2-stroke diesel
Generator	DC generator
Traction motors	DC traction motors
Cylinders	8
Cylinder size	8 in × 10 in (203 mm × 254 mm)
Performance figures
Power output	600 hp (450 kW)
Locomotive brake	Straight air
Train brakes	Air
Career
Operator(s)	Seaboard Air Line
Locale	North America
Disposition	All scrapped

Seaboard Air Line 2027 and 2028 were lightweight, streamlined Diesel-electric railcars built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1936. Electromotive Corporation supplied the 600 hp (450 kW), eight-cylinder Winton Diesel 201-A prime mover and electric transmission components. The units had a B-2 wheel arrangement, mounted atop a pair of road trucks. The aft section was divided into two separate compartments: one was used to transport baggage and the other served as a small railway post office, or RPO (the forward door, located just behind the radiator louvers, was equipped with a mail hook).

Two units were manufactured for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL). The last usage of these railcars was in May, 1971. Unit 2027 was destroyed in a collision with a gas tanker truck at Arcadia, Florida in 1956. Unit 2028 was renumbered to #4900 after the Seaboard-ACL merger in 1967 and was eventually retired and scrapped after Amtrak took over national passenger service in 1971.

References

Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.

Limited production, export and EMD engined locomotives by Electro-Motive Diesel

Electrics	SW1200MG AEM-7 GM6C GM10B GF6C

Industrial, military, export and narrow gauge	Model 40 DDM45 DH1 FGC 254 GMDH-1 GMDH-3 MRS-1 G8 GA8 GL8 G12 G16 G18 GA18 G22 Series G22C Series GT18LC-2 GT22 series GT26 series G26 JT56ACe (China HXN3) NF110 NF210 JT42CWR (Class 66) GT46MAC GT22HW GT46PAC GT26CW-2 GT38ACe

Streamliners	M-10000 M-10001 M-10002 M-10003 to M-10006 Pioneer Zephyr Mark Twain Zephyr General Pershing Zephyr Green Diamond Flying Yankee LWT 12 SAL 2027–2028

EMD engined or license built units	British Rail Class 57 British Rail Class 67 CIE 001 CIE 071 CIE 121 CIE 141 CIE 181 CFL 1600 DSB Class ME DSB Class MX DSB Class MY DSB Class MZ IE 201 IR WDM-4 Israel Railways JT 42BW Israel Railways JT 42CW NIR 111 NSB Di 4 New Jersey Transit PL42AC RENFE Class 310 RENFE Class 319 (early versions) RENFE Class 319 (later versions) RENFE Class 333 RENFE Class 334 SNCB HLD 51 SNCB HLD 52 SNCB HLD 53 SNCB HLD 54 SNCB HLD 55 SNCB HLD 51 SNCB HLD 62 SNCB HLD 65 SJ T41 SJ T43 SJ T44 Vossloh Euro

Experimentals	1800 hp B-B DH2

See also: List of GM-EMD locomotives

SAL 2027

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References