EMD E8
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The EMD E8 is a 2,250-horsepower, A1A-A1A passenger-train locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. A total of 449 cab versions, or E8As, were built from Augu
Rock Island E8 #652, Formerly operated by Midland Railway of Baldwin City, Kansas.
The Engineer / Operator position of an E8A
Union Pacific 942 is operational at the Southern California Railway Museum.
EMD E7
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The E7 is a 2,000-horsepower, A1A-A1A passenger train locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. 428 cab versions, or E7As, were built from February 1945 to Ap
EMD E8
…EMD E-units. Starting in September 1953, a total of 21 E8As were built which used either the 567BC or 567C engines. In profile the front of the nose of E7, E8, and E9 units is less slanted than earlier EMD units, so E7/8/9s (and their four axle cousins, the F-unit series) have been nicknamed "bulldog nose…
Pennsylvania Railroad E7A #5901 on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in 2015.