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An EMD SD28 is a 6-axle diesel locomotive built by
General Motors Electro-Motive Division 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 su ...
between July 1965 and September 1965. Power was provided by an
EMD 567D1 The EMD 567 is a line of large medium-speed diesel engines built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. This engine, which succeeded Winton's 201A, was used in EMD's locomotives from 1938 until its replacement in 1966 by the EMD 645. It ...
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cylinder A cylinder (from ) has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base. A cylinder may also be defined as an infin ...
engine which generated . This locomotive was basically a non-turbocharged version of the
EMD SD35 An EMD SD35 is a 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between June 1964 and January 1966. Power was provided by an EMD 567D3A, 16-cylinder engine which generated . A fuel tank was used on this unit. ...
. 6 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads. A passenger variant, type SDP28, was built for export to Korea in May 1966, with 6 delivered. Only 1 SD28 is left it is owned by Cargill and operates in Iowa.


Original Buyers


References

* * Thompson, J. David.
EMD SD28, SD35 and related models Original Owners
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