The EMD SW1504 is a diesel-electric

switcher locomotive A switcher locomotive (American English), shunter locomotive (British English), or shifter locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad terminology) is a locomotive used for maneuvering railway vehicles over short distances. Switchers do not usually move ...

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 sub ...

. The type was sold only to

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

's national railroad,

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (better known as N de M and especially in its final years as FNM) was Mexico's state owned railroad company from 1938 to 1998, and prior to 1938 (dating from the regime of Porfirio Díaz), a major railroad con ...

; 60 examples were built between May and August 1973. With the breakup of NdeM, the locomotives have passed away to the variety of successor railroad operators in Mexico; some have been sold to leasing companies in the USA.

References

* Laundry, Mark.
The Yard Limit: EMD SW1504
'. Retrieved on March 23, 2005. * * Trainweb.org.
The Unofficial EMD Homepage
'. Retrieved on March 23, 2005. * McCall, S.A.

'. Retrieved on March 23, 2005.

External links

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EMD SW1504 photos at rrpicturearchives.net
{{Diesel_Switchers B-B locomotives SW1504 Diesel-electric locomotives of the United States Standard gauge locomotives of the United States Standard gauge locomotives of Mexico Shunting locomotives

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