EMD SW1200

EMD SW1200
BN 251 working Eola Yard in Aurora, Illinois.
Type and origin Power type Diesel-electric Builder General Motors Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Diesel, Canada Model SW1200 Build date January 1954 – May 1966 Total produced 1,056
Specifications Gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Engine type EMD 567C Cylinders 12
Performance figures Power output 1,200 hp (895 kW)
Career Locale North America, South America Disposition many scrapped, many still in use

An EMD SW1200 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and May 1966. Power was provided by an EMD 567C 12-cylinder engine which generated 1200 horsepower (890 kW). Late SW1200s built in 1966 were built with the 567E 12 cylinder engine.

737 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads, 287 were built for Canadian railroads 4 were built for Brazilian Railroads, 25 were built for a Chilean Industrial firm, and 3 were built for the Panama Canal Railroad.

Original buyers

Units built by Electro-Motive Division, USA

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Aliquippa and Southern Railroad	13	1201–1213
Ashley, Drew and Northern Railway	2	176, 178
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway	3	2439–2441
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad	8	9614–9621
Bauxite and Northern Railway	1	11
Bellefonte Central Railroad	1	5624
Belt Railway of Chicago	3	524–526
Birmingham Southern Railroad	2	200–201
Chicago and Illinois Midland Railroad	6	18–23
Chicago and North Western Railway	12	310–321
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad	22	9271–9292
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (“Milwaukee Road”)	48	1637–1642, 2020–2061	Renumbered 600–619, 625–652 (not in order)
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad	17	920–936
Colorado and Southern Railway	5	156–160
Commonwealth Edison	1	16
Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad	2	120–121
Coos Bay Lumber Company	3	1201–1203
Cuyahoga Valley Railway	7	1280–1286
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad	8	561–568	to Erie Lackawanna 456–463
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad	10	130–139
De Queen and Eastern Railroad	1	D-5
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway	8	300–307
Florida East Coast Railway	7	229–235
Fort Worth and Denver Railway	4	607–610
Grand Trunk Western Railroad	18	1269–1270, 1505–1508, 1511–1519, 7017–7019
Great Lakes Steel	16	16, 39–53
Great Northern Railway	6	29–33, 100
Houston Belt and Terminal Railway	5	33–37
Illinois Terminal Railroad	12	775–786
Inland Steel Company	23	88–114
Kansas City Terminal Railway	10	70–79
Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer	1	105
Louisville and Nashville Railroad	4	2297–2300
Midland Electric Coal Company	1	1201
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway	6	30–35	to Soo Line
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, (“Soo Line”)	8	321–328
Soo Line (Wisconsin Central Railroad)	8	2120–2127
Missouri Pacific Railroad	116	1100–1166, 1175–1201, 1255–1259, 1263–1279
Missouri Pacific (Texas and Pacific Railway)	20	1280–1299
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad	8	1–6, 43–44
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad	20	640–659
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad	2	71–72
Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad	15	101–115
Northern Pacific Railway	59	119–177
Oliver Iron Mining Company	9	940–948
Pacific Power and Light	1	10
Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad	10	125–134
Pennsylvania Railroad	35	7900–7934
Peoria and Pekin Union Railway	1	500
Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad	5	39–43
Point Comfort and Northern Railway	1	4
Reading Company	5	2715–2719
Republic Steel Corporation	2	362, 895
Reserve Mining Company	1	1212
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad	5	81–85
River Terminal Railway	2	63–64
Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad	1	8
Sandersville Railroad	1	200
Simpson Logging Company	2	1200–1201
Southern Pacific Transportation Company	27	1597–1623
Southern Pacific (Texas and New Orleans Railroad)	12	113–118, 123–128
St. Louis Southwestern Railway (“Cotton Belt”)	17	1062–1073, 2289–2293
Steelton and Highspire Railroad	1	44
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis	25	1219–1243
Tooele Valley Railway	1	100
U.S. Steel	2	SX1–SX2
Wabash Railroad	5	375–379
West Virginia Northern Railroad	1	52
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company	1	304
Wheeling Steel	7	1250, 1254–1259
Woodward Iron Company	1	52
Total	733

Units built by General Motors Diesel, Canada

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Canadian Forest Products	3	301–303
Canadian National Railways	208	1227–1268, 1271–1397, 1575–1597, 7020–7035
Canadian Pacific Railway	72	8100–8171
Dominion Foundries and Steel (“Dofasco”)	1	14
Essex Terminal Railway	1	105
Quebec Iron and Titanium	1	5
Roberval and Saguenay Railway	1	23
Total	287

References

• Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89024-026-7.

See also

• EMD LWT12