The EMD GM6W
diesel-electric locomotive
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was introduced by
Electro-Motive Diesel
Progress Rail Locomotives, doing business as Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry. The company is owned by Caterpillar through its s ...
as an export model
switcher in 1960.
The prototype unit spent its entire life at the
General Motors LaGrange, Illinois
''(the barn)''
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, plant. It wound up life at the Pielet Brothers Scrap yard next to EMD's plant and was eventually scrapped.
It inspired limited sales. Four went to the
Chemin de Fer de l'Etat Libanais in
Lebanon
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One known unit, built January 1961, was bought by the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine at
Stilfontein in
North West Province
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History
North West was incorporated after the end of Apartheid in 1994, an ...
,
South Africa
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.
[South African Industrials (Buffelsfontein Gold Mines)]
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Original Owners
References
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Diesel-electric locomotives of Lebanon
Diesel-electric locomotives of South Africa
Railway locomotives introduced in 1960
Standard gauge locomotives of Lebanon
Cape gauge railway locomotives
Shunting locomotives