FT A-B-B-A set built for the Reading Railroad. Photo courtesy The Reading Modeler. In 1939, EMD introduced the FT, a 1,350-hp diesel-electric locomotive. The “F” stood for Fourteen Hundred (1,400) hp ...

the diesel engine can be smaller, thus reducing the number of cylinders required. In Siemens’s proposal, it is able to supply a locomotive with 20% fewer cylinders than the locomotive offered by EMD.

In the 1930s, GM's Electro-Motive Division began producing many popular diesel-electric locomotives, and the diesel engines that powered them, for America's railroads. In fact, General Motors ...

EMD, which General ... freight and road-switching locomotives is performed at a plant in London, Ont. Over the past four years Caterpillar, which is also a big maker of diesel engines and gas ...