EMD at 100 is a 92-page special issue from Trains magazine looking at the 100-year history of Electro-Motive, the locomotive builder that changed the course of railroading history.
EMD at 100
THE COMPANY THAT DID IT
The La Grange influence • What if ground had not been broken on March 27, 1935?
THE EMD EPOCH • A century of diesel locomotive progress
ELECTRO-MOTIVE: YOUNG GIANT • Pioneering infant of 26 years ago is now the world’s largest builder of locomotives
F IS FOR FREIGHT • Developing the breakthrough streamliner for heavy hauls
NO CAB NO PROBLEM • The venerable B unit earned its place in the EMD product line
HOW THE ‘HOME OF THE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE’ BUILDS DIESELS • EMD has little in common with Boeing or Buick
AMERICAN STANDARD • The SD40 and family became the all-time best-selling diesel
PROVING (AND IMPROVING) THE PRODUCT • EMD demonstrators and test beds that paved the way for key advances
EMD’S NEXT ERA • Technology and a trend toward sustainable fuels bring on change in locomotive building
ENGINEERS ON EMDS • Hoggers swap stories about the diesels of La Grange
OLD SHOES
JUST THE RIGHT SPOT
‘GOOD MILE, KID!’