EMD NW2

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EMD NW2

Midland Railway EMD NW2 #524, at Baldwin City, Kansas
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Model	NW2
Build date	February, 1939 - December, 1949
Total production	1143
AAR wheel arr.	B-B
Prime mover	EMD 12-567
Cylinders	12
Power output	1,000 hp (750 kW)

The EMD NW2 is a 1,000 hp (750 kW), B-B switcher locomotive manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. The NW2 was manufactured from February, 1939 to December, 1949, and 1143 were produced – 1119 for the U.S., and 24 for Canada. The 1,000 hp (750 kW) was achieved by using a 12-cylinder, model 567, and later, a model 567A engine. In addition, 3 TR cow-calf paired sets, 36 TR2 cow-calf paired sets, and 2 TR3 cow-calf-calf sets were produced. The TR sets were built prior to WW2 and the TR2 and TR3 sets were post WW2 production.

Contents 1 Identification 2 Original owners 2.1 NW2 2.2 TR 2.3 TR2 (cow-calf) 2.4 TR3 (cow-calf-calf) 3 Surviving and preserved units 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Identification

Distinguishing features include two stacks in the middle of the hood, a half-height radiator grille, no sand box on the front platform, and no small louvers at the top front corners of the sides of the hood. The predecessor of the NW2 was the NW1. The "N" in NW1 stands for nine hundred hp (670 kW). The "W" in both models stands for welded frame.

[edit] Original owners

[edit] NW2

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Appalachicola Northern	4	701–704
Arkansas and Louisiana Midland	1	10
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway	15	2353–2367
Atlantic Coast Line	6	601, 603, 605, 611, 613, 615
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad	49	400–408, 550–589
Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal	3	409–411
Bangor and Aroostook	4	800–803	renumbered
Boston and Maine Railroad	14	1200–1213
Canadian National Railways	20	7936–7945, 7956–7965
Central of Georgia Railroad	2	20, 25
Central Railroad of New Jersey	2	1060–1061
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	35	1850–1856, 5200–5213, 5060–5079
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad	6	119–124
Chicago and Western Indiana	2	250–251
Chicago Great Western	17	16–31, 42
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad	46	9203–9248
Chicago, Indiananpolis and Louisville	7	1–3, 14–17
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway	1	70
Colorado and Southern	4	150–153
Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad	3	100–102
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western	5	461–465
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad	1	7000	renumbered
Des Moines Union	1	7
Detroit Terminal	11	104–112, 114–115
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton	7	910–916
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern	40	403–407, 409–443
Electro-Motive Division (demonstrator)	1	889	to Union Pacific 1000
Erie Railroad	27	401–427
Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad	3	603–606
Fort Worth Belt	1	2
Georgia Railroad	5	901–905
Grand Trunk Western Railroad	24	7900–7914, 7966–7974
Great Northern Railway	51	5302–5336, 145–162	5302–5336 renumbered
Illinois Central Railroad	17	9150–9166
Indiana Harbor Belt	78	8715–8739, 8774–8802, 8811–8834
Indiana Northern	1	100
Jacksonville Terminal	7	30–36
Kansas City Southern Railway	32	1100–1102, 1125–1126, 1200–1226
Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf	1	1001
Lake Champlain and Moriah	1	19
Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway	5	100–104
Lake Terminal	20	1001–1020
Lehigh Valley	7	180–186
Louisville and Nashville Railroad	5	2240–2244
Manistee and North Eastern	2	2–3
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad	2	80–81
Milwaukee Road	8	1647–1654	renumbered
Minneapolis and St. Louis	2	D-139, D-740	renumbered
Missouri Pacific Railroad	3	9104–9106
Missouri-Illinois Railroad	1	51
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad	5	1026–1030
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad	5	20–23, 25
New York Central Railroad	57	8700–8714, 8740–8773, 8803–8810
New York, Ontario and Western Railroad	21	111–131
Nickel Plate Road	16	7–22
Northern Pacific Railway	6	1 01–106
Pennsylvania Railroad	20	3909, 5931–5925, 9155–9164, 9247–9250
Peoria and Pekin Union Railroad	6	400–405
Pere Marquette Railway	14	51–64
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Lavender Pit	2	1–2
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Morenci Mine	4	5–8
Phelps Dodge Corporation, New Cornelia Branch Mine	5	1–4, 3 (second)
Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad	8	219, 222–225, 26–28
Reading Company	8	90–92, 100–104
Republic Steel Corporation	1	D-815
River Terminal	1	60
Rock Island Railroad	10	765–774
Seaboard Air Line Railroad	7	1406–1412
Soo Line Railroad	3	300, 301, 2108
Southern Railway	69	2200–2204, 2206–2207, 2233–2284, 6050–6058, 6850, 6851, 8560
Southern Pacific Railroad	50	1310–1319, 1403–1425, 72–88
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway	3	40–42
St. Louis Southwestern Railroad	4	1050–1053
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway	16	250–265
Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad	3	900–902
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis	17	551–567
Texas and Pacific Railroad	20	1000–1019
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway	4	51–54
Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad	1	52
Union Pacific Railroad	95	1001–1095
Union Railroad	20	536–555
United States Navy, Fallbrook Naval Amunition Depot	4	1–4
United States Navy, Hawthorne, Nevada	1	44
Wabash Railroad	3	350–352
West Virginia Northern Railroad	2	50–51
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad	4	D-1–D-4
Wheeling Steel Company	1	1251

[edit] TR

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Illinois Central Railroad	3 sets	9203AB–9205AB

[edit] TR2 (cow-calf)

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Electro-Motive Division (demonstrator)	1 set	912AB	to CB&Q 9400AB
Belt Railway of Chicago	2 sets	500AB, 501AB
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad	13 sets	9401AB–9413AB	calf-units rebuilt with cabs
Chicago and North Western Railway	2 sets	2000AB, 2001AB
Chicago Great Western Railroad	9 sets	58AB–66AB
Illinois Central Railroad	3 sets	9206AB–9208AB
Milwaukee Road	1 set	2000AB
Southern Railway	5 sets	2400AB–2504AB
Total	36 sets

[edit] TR3 (cow-calf-calf)

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	2 sets	6500ABC, 6501ABC

[edit] Surviving and preserved units

Many NW2's survive today. One NW2 is operated by the Midland Railway in Baldwin City, Kansas. It is privately owned. It is ex-Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #9227. It is used mainly for work trains. The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway of Illinois and Indiana operates an NW2 cow/calf unit in its Joliet railyard. The Indiana Harbor Belt who operated near 80 still operates two.

Western Pacific Railroad 608, originally built as Union Pacific Railroad D.S. 1001, that roads second wholly owned diesel, is today preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. This locomotive is part of the popular Run-A-Locomotive program.

Union Pacific Railroad D.S. 1011 and D.S. 1043 are preserved and operated by the Heber Valley Railroad in Heber City, Ut.

[edit] References

• Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide, pp.EMD-36, 37. Kalmbach Books. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-22894.
• Solomon, Brian (2000). The American Diesel Locomotive, p.53. MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7603-0666-4.

[edit] External links

• Midland Railway roster

v • d • e Diesel-electric switcher locomotives built by GM-EMD SC, NC, NC1, NC2, T, NW1, NW1A, NW4, SW, NW2, NW3, NW5, TR1, SW1, SW7, SW8, SW9, SW600, SW900, SW1000, SW1001, SW1200, SW1500, SW1504, MP15DC, MP15AC, MP15T, RS1325, GMD1 (See also: List of GM-EMD locomotives)