The EMD NW2 is a 1,000 hp (750 kW), B-B switcher locomotive manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. The NW2 was manufactured from February, 1939 to December, 1949, and 1143 were produced – 1119 for the U.S., and 24 for Canada. Starting in late 1948 the NW2s were manufactured in EMD's Plant #3 in Cleveland, Ohio. The 1,000 hp (750 kW) was achieved by using a 12-cylinder, model 567, and later, a model 567A engine. In addition, 3 TR cow-calf paired sets, 36 TR2 cow-calf paired sets, and 2 TR3 cow-calf-calf sets were produced. The TR sets were built prior to WW2 and the TR2 and TR3 sets were post WW2 production.
Identification
Distinguishing features include two stacks in the middle of the hood, a half-height radiator grille, no sand box on the front platform, and no small louvers at the top front corners of the sides of the hood. The predecessor of the NW2 was the NW1. The "N" in NW1 stands for nine hundred hp (670 kW). The "W" in both models stands for welded frame.
Original owners
NW2
| Railroad |
Quantity |
Road numbers |
Notes |
| Appalachicola Northern Railroad |
4
|
701–704
|
|
| Arkansas and Louisiana Missouri Railway |
1
|
10
|
|
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway |
15
|
2353–2367
|
Renumbered 2403–2417 |
| Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
6
|
601, 603, 605,
611, 613, 615
|
Renumbered, to Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
| Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
49
|
400–408, 550–589
|
Renumbered 9500–9508, 9512–9551 (not in order) |
| Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad |
3
|
409–411
|
Renumbered 9509–9511 |
| Bangor and Aroostook Railroad |
4
|
800–803
|
Renumbered 20–23 |
| Boston and Maine Railroad |
14
|
1200–1213
|
|
| Canadian National Railways |
20
|
7936–7945, 7956–7965
|
|
| Central of Georgia Railway |
2
|
20, 25
|
|
| Central Railroad of New Jersey |
2
|
1060–1061
|
|
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
35
|
1850–1856, 5200–5213, 5060–5079
|
|
| Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad |
6
|
119–124
|
|
| Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad |
2
|
250–251
|
|
| Chicago Great Western Railway |
17
|
16–31, 42
|
to Chicago and North Western Railway |
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad |
46
|
9203–9248
|
to Burlington Northern |
| Chicago, Indiananpolis and Louisville Railway (“Monon”) |
7
|
1–3, 14–17
|
1–3 renumbered 11–13 |
| Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (“Milwaukee Road”) |
8
|
1647–1654
|
Renumbered 665–672 |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad |
10
|
765–774
|
|
| Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway |
1
|
70
|
to Chicago and North Western Railway |
| Colorado and Southern Railway |
4
|
150–153
|
|
| Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad |
3
|
100–102
|
|
| Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad |
5
|
461–465
|
to Erie Lackawanna Railroad |
| Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad |
1
|
7000
|
Renumbered 100 |
| Des Moines Union Railway |
1
|
7
|
to Wabash Railroad 350 |
| Detroit Terminal Railroad |
11
|
104–112, 114–115
|
| Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad |
7
|
910–916
|
|
| Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway |
40
|
403–407, 409–443
|
|
| Electro-Motive Division (demonstrator) |
1
|
889
|
to Union Pacific 1000 |
| Erie Railroad |
27
|
401–427
|
to Erie Lackawanna |
| Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad |
3
|
603–606
|
|
| Fort Worth Belt Railway |
1
|
2
|
to Missouri Pacific Railroad 1020 |
| Georgia Railroad |
5
|
901–905
|
|
| Grand Trunk Western Railroad |
24
|
7900–7914, 7966–7974
|
|
| Great Northern Railway |
51
|
5302–5336, 145–162
|
5302–5336 renumbered 102–135 |
| Illinois Central Railroad |
17
|
9150–9166
|
Renumbered 1000–1016 |
| Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad |
78
|
8715–8739, 8774–8802, 8811–8834
|
| Indiana Northern Railway |
1
|
100
|
|
| Jacksonville Terminal |
7
|
30–36
|
|
| Kansas City Southern Railway |
32
|
1100–1102, 1125–1126,
1200–1226
|
| Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway |
1
|
1001
|
to Missouri Pacific Railroad 1027 |
| Lake Champlain and Moriah Rail Road |
1
|
19
|
|
| Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway |
5
|
100–104
|
|
| Lake Terminal Railroad |
20
|
1001–1020
|
|
| Lehigh Valley Railroad |
7
|
180–186
|
|
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
5
|
2240–2244
|
Renumbered 2215–2219 |
| Manistee and Northeastern Railway |
2
|
2–3
|
to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
| Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad |
2
|
80–81
|
|
| Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway |
2
|
D-139, D-740
|
Renumbered 100, 101 |
| Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (“Soo Line”) |
2
|
300, 301
|
|
| Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (Wisconsin Central Railway) |
1
|
2108
|
|
| Missouri Pacific Railroad |
3
|
9104–9106
|
|
| Missouri-Illinois Railroad |
1
|
51
|
to Missouri Pacific Railroad 1028 |
| Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad |
5
|
1026–1030
|
Renumbered 7–11 |
| Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway |
5
|
20–23, 25
|
25 renumbered 19; to Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
| New York Central Railroad |
57
|
8700–8714, 8740–8773, 8803–8810
|
|
| New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Road”) |
16
|
7–22
|
|
| New York, Ontario and Western Railroad |
21
|
111–131
|
One to Northern Pacific Railway, three to Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, remainder to New York Central Railroad |
| Northern Pacific Railway |
6
|
101–106
|
|
| Pennsylvania Railroad |
20
|
3909, 5931–5925,
9155–9164, 9247–9250
|
|
| Peoria and Pekin Union Railway |
6
|
400–405
|
|
| Pere Marquette Railway |
14
|
51–64
|
to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
| Phelps Dodge Corporation, Lavender Pit |
2
|
1–2
|
|
| Phelps Dodge Corporation, Morenci Mine |
4
|
5–8
|
|
| Phelps Dodge Corporation, New Cornelia Branch Mine |
5
|
1–4, 3 (second)
|
|
| Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad |
8
|
219, 222–225, 26–28
|
219, 222–225 renumbered 21–25 |
| Reading Company |
8
|
90–92, 100–104
|
|
| Republic Steel Corporation |
1
|
D-815
|
|
| River Terminal Railway |
1
|
60
|
|
| Seaboard Air Line Railroad |
7
|
1406–1412
|
to Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
| Southern Railway |
69
|
2200–2204, 2206–2207, 2233–2284,
6050–6058, 6850, 6851, 8560
|
|
| Southern Pacific Company |
50
|
1310–1319, 1403–1425, 72–88
|
|
| Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway |
3
|
40–42
|
to Burlington Northern 593–595 |
| St. Louis Southwestern Railway |
4
|
1050–1053
|
|
| St. Louis-San Francisco Railway |
16
|
250–265
|
|
| Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad |
3
|
900–902
|
|
| Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis |
17
|
551–567
|
|
| Texas and Pacific Railway |
20
|
1000–1019
|
to Missouri Pacific Railroad |
| Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway |
4
|
51–54
|
|
| Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad |
1
|
52
|
|
| Union Pacific Railroad |
95
|
1001–1095
|
|
| Union Railroad |
20
|
536–555
|
|
| United States Navy, Fallbrook Naval Amunition Depot |
4
|
1–4
|
|
| United States Navy, Hawthorne, Nevada |
1
|
44
|
|
| Wabash Railroad |
2
|
351–352
|
to Norfolk and Western Railway 33351–3352 |
| West Virginia Northern Railroad |
2
|
50–51
|
|
| Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway |
4
|
D-1–D-4
|
|
| Wheeling Steel Company |
1
|
1251
|
|
| Total |
1139 |
|
|
TR
TR2 (cow-calf)
TR3 (cow-calf-calf)
Surviving and preserved units
Many NW2's survive today. One NW2 is operated by the Midland Railway in Baldwin City, Kansas. It is privately owned. It is ex-Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #9227. It is used mainly for work trains. The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway of Illinois and Indiana operates an NW2 cow/calf unit in its Joliet railyard. The Indiana Harbor Belt who operated near 80 still operates two.
Western Pacific Railroad 608, originally built as Union Pacific Railroad D.S. 1001, that roads second wholly owned diesel, is today preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. This locomotive is part of the popular Run-A-Locomotive program.
Union Pacific Railroad D.S. 1011 and D.S. 1043 are preserved and operated by the Heber Valley Railroad in Heber City, Ut.
References
- Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide, pp.EMD-36, 37. Kalmbach Books. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-22894.
- Solomon, Brian (2000). The American Diesel Locomotive, p.53. MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7603-0666-4.
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