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.

Preservation

  • BNSF #3613 (former BN #388) is preserved at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon.

SW1000 Locomotives as built by EMD

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|Altos Hornos de Mexico||style="text-align:center;" |2 ||style="text-align:center;" | 132, 137||

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|Cementos Anahuac (Mexico) ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |No Number || Transferred to Cemex acquired Anahuac in 1987

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|Appalachian Power ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" | 1|| Now owned by Roanoke Chapter NRHS.

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|Armco Steel ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |B81 ||

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|Birmingham Southern Railroad||style="text-align:center;" |8||style="text-align:center;" |10-17 || 15 to 17 scrapped 1973; 13 became 213 and sold to Watco, Inc.

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|Burlington Northern ||style="text-align:center;" |43 ||style="text-align:center;" |375-394, 427-449 || #442 rebuilt without cab; transferred to BNSF with one sold to GATX Rail Locomotive Group

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|Chicago Burlington and Quincy ||style="text-align:center;" |12 ||style="text-align:center;" |9310-9321 ||to Burlington Northern 574-585

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|Ferrocarril Chihuahua Cellulose (Mexico) ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" | 1811|| to Ferromex

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|Corn Products International ||style="text-align:center;" |2 ||style="text-align:center;" |68–69 ||

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|Cuyahoga Valley Railroad ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |1050 ||

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|Denver and Rio Grande Western|| style="text-align:center;" |10 ||style="text-align:center;" |140-149 ||

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|Detroit Edison ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |216 ||

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|Duluth and Northeastern ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |35 || to Cloquet Terminal Railroad

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||Eastman Kodak ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |8 ||

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|E I DuPont Nemours and Company ||style="text-align:center;" |2 ||style="text-align:center;" |106-107 ||

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|General Motors-Central Foundry Division ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |No Number ||

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|Great Lakes Steel Corporation ||style="text-align:center;" | 1||style="text-align:center;" | 58 ||

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|Hampton and Branchville ||style="text-align:center;" | 1 ||style="text-align:center;" | 120 ||

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|Houston Belt and Terminal ||style="text-align:center;" | 3 ||style="text-align:center;" |40-42 ||

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|Inland Steel ||style="text-align:center;" |4 ||style="text-align:center;" |115-118 || All sold to Via Rail

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|Jones and Laughlin Steel ||style="text-align:center;" |2 ||style="text-align:center;" |102–103 ||

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|Kaiser Bauxite (Jamaica) ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |5109||

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|Mobil Chemical ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |2 ||

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|New Orleans Public Belt ||style="text-align:center;" | 6||style="text-align:center;" | 101-106||

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|Public Service Company of Indiana ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||

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|Wisconsin Electric Power ||style="text-align:center;" |1 ||style="text-align:center;" |No Number ||

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|Youngstown Sheet and Tube ||style="text-align:center;" |10 ||style="text-align:center;" |905-914||

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! Total !! 119 !! !!

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See also

  • List of GM-EMD locomotives

References

  • Diesel Era Volume 3 Number 1 January/February 1992 pp37–49