The EMD GP38AC is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between February 1970 and December 1971. It was basically a GP38 with an AR10 alternator instead of the GP38's normal generator.
261 examples of this model were built; railroads that purchased this model include CP, DT&I, GTW, GM&O, IC, LV, L&N, N&W, SLSF, SOU and Pacific Power and Light.
Many were upgraded to full GP38-2 status with the Dash 2 modular electrical cabinet.
thumb|[[BNSF Railway|BNSF 2116 EMD GP38AC]]
thumb|223x223px|[[New England Central Railroad EMD GP 38 AC Unit #3857 at White River Junction, VT]]
Original buyers
{| class="wikitable"
! Railroad !! Quantity !! Road numbers !! Notes
|-
|CP Rail
|
|3000-3020
|
|-
|rowspan="2"|Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad
|rowspan="2"|
|210-217
|215 renumbered 209, 216 renumbered 208, 217 renumbered 207; to Grand Trunk Western Railroad 6207-6214
|-
|215-220
|To Grand Trunk Western Railroad 6215-6220
|-
|Grand Trunk Western Railroad
|
|5800-5811
|
|-
|Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|
|721-733
|To Illinois Central 9540-9552
|-
|Illinois Central Railroad
|
|9500-9519
|
|-
|Lehigh Valley Railroad
|
|310-313
|To Conrail 7656-7659, and then to Norfolk Southern 2881-2884, Rebuilt into remote control yard slugs in 2007
|-
|Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|4020-4049
|To Seaboard System Railroad 6241-6270 then to CSX
|-
|Norfolk and Western Railway
|
|4100-4159
|To Norfolk Southern.
|-
|Pacific Power & Light Company
|
|11
|To Arizona Public Service - Pacificorp Cholla Power Plant
|-
|Southern Railway
|
|2823–2878
|To Norfolk Southern.
|-
|St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
|
|633-662
|651 wrecked, remaining to Burlington Northern Railroad 2110-2138 and later to BNSF. Some of them were rebuilt as GP38-3R or GP39-3
|-
!Totals !! 261 !! !!
|}
Preservation
thumb|BNSF Railway EMD GP38AC No. 2127 at the [[Galveston Railroad Museum]]
In June 2020, BNSF 2127, originally Frisco 650 built in February 1971, was donated to the Galveston Railroad Museum, in Galveston, Texas.
References
- Sarberenyi, Robert. EMD GP38 and GP38AC Original Owners