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
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 h ...
, 16-
cylinder engine which generated . A fuel tank was used on this unit. This locomotive model shared a common frame with the
EMD SD28, giving it an overall length of . 360 examples of this locomotive model were built for
American
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
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** American ancestry, pe ...
railroads.
Original Owners
Preservation
Three EMD SD35s survive in preservation in the United States, with one rebuilt. They include:
*
Baltimore and Ohio #7402 is preserved at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Built in 1964 for helper service on the grades of the Allegheny Mountains, it went to
Chessie System in 1973 then was replaced by the
SD50s in the mid 80’s. It was patched to
CSX 4550 in 1987, and retired. Then in 1995 it was donated to the museum, and restored to its
B&O appearance as B&O 7402.
*
Vintage Locomotives Inc 1216 is at the
Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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. Built in 1965 for the
L&N as 1216, it became SCL Family Lines 4508 sometime after 1971 then to
SBD
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* Douglas SBD Dauntless, a World War II American naval scout plane and dive bomber
* San Bernardino International Airport, airport identifier code SBD
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in 1982 and
CSX in 1987 and was retired in 1988. It was then sold to Minnesota Valley as 322, where it continued to operate until being sold to PREX then to MALX. In 2008 it was renumbered to 1216, painted primer red-orange and shipped to SARM.
*
Western Maryland rebuilt
SD38P 7436 is sublettered for
Georges Creek Railroad
The Georges Creek Railroad was a railroad operated by the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company in Western Maryland. The railroad operated from 1853 to 1863, when it was acquired by the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad (C&P).
History
Georges ...
(GCK) and stored in
Westernport, Maryland. Built in 1964, it and all other SD35 on the
WM were repainted into the circus scheme in 1969. It went to
Chessie System in 1973 and then it was bought by
BN some time after, rebuilt to an SD38P and numbered 6267. In 1996 it went to
BNSF and kept its number until 2009 when it was renumbered to 1556. It was retired in 2011 and sent to the GCK and was restored and renumbered to WM 7436 along with WM
SD40 7471 (rebuilt to a
SD40M-2) in 2012, and was on display at the
WMSR in 2013 until returning to the GCK and put in storage.
References
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* Thompson, J. David.
EMD SD35 and related models Original Owners'. Retrieved on August 27, 2006
External links
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www.railgoat.railfan.net/sp_sd35/index.html
http://espee.railfan.net/spsd35.html
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C-C locomotives
Diesel-electric locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1964
Freight locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States