EMD E7
Milwaukee Road's 16A and 16B hauling the Afternoon Hiawatha
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The E7 was a 2,000-horsepower (1,500 kW), 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 April 1949; 82 booster E7Bs were built from March 1945 to July 1948. (Circa 1953 one more E7A was built by the Los Angeles General Shops of the Southern Pacific by rebuilding an E2A.) The 2,000 hp came from two 12 cylinder model 567A engines. Each engine drove its own electrical generator to power the two traction motors on one truck. The E7 was the eighth model in a line of passenger diesels of similar design known as EMD E-units.
In profile the front of the nose of an E7A was less slanted than on earlier EMD passenger locomotives, and the E7, E8, and E9 units have been nicknamed “bulldog nose” units. Some earlier units were called “shovel nose” units or “slant nose” units.
A Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad E7A, #103-A, appears at the start and end of the 1967 film In The Heat Of The Night.
A Southern Pacific E7A, #6001, is on the point of a train that figures prominently in The Hitch-Hiker, a popular 1960 episode of the anthology television series, The Twilight Zone, starring Inger Stevens. (According to the narration, Steven's character is said to encounter the train somewhere between Pennsylvania and Tennessee, yet the locomotive's number board shows that the train, #99, is the Coast Daylight, which travelled between Los Angeles and San Francisco.)
The only E7 that survives today is owned by the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, in Strasburg, Pennsylvania and is ex-Pennsylvania Railroad E7A #5901. This locomotive has been cosmetically restored, and is on indoor display.
Original owners
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Electro-Motive Division (demonstrator) |
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to Union Pacific 988 Train of Tomorrow unit. Was rebuilt into an E9A and is currently at Danbury Railway Museum in Connecticut, and was restored into the New York Central "lightning stripe" paint scheme. |
Alton Railroad |
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to GM&O in 1947 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
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Bangor and Aroostook Railroad |
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renumbered 10–11, Both Re-geared for freight in 1962 |
Boston and Maine Railroad |
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad |
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Even numbers only |
Central of Georgia Railway |
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
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Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad |
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Chicago and North Western Railway |
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad |
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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad |
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Florida East Coast Railway |
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Great Northern Railway |
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500A,B–504A,B renumbered 500A–509A |
Illinois Central Railroad |
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
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458A,B–461A,B, 790–793 |
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Maine Central Railroad |
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Milwaukee Road |
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Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad |
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Missouri Pacific Railroad |
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renumbered 13–15, 19–20, 23–26, 13B–15B, 17B–20B |
Missouri Pacific Railroad (International-Great Northern Railroad) |
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renumbered 16, 21–22, 16B |
Missouri Pacific Railroad (St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway) |
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renumbered 17–18 |
New York Central Railroad |
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Pere Marquette Railway |
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Pennsylvania Railroad |
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Seaboard Air Line Railroad |
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St. Louis-San Francisco Railway |
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Later rebuilt to look like E8's, but retained the same E7 innards |
Southern Railway |
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Southern Pacific Company |
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Model E7m, rebuilt from an E2A at Los Angeles Shops. | |
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway |
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to Burlington Northern 9900 |
Texas and Pacific Railway |
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renumbered 1–10 |
Union Pacific Railroad |
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Joint UP-C&NW |
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Joint UP-SP-C&NW |
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Wabash Railroad |
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Total | 429 | 82 |
See also
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to EMD E7 locomotives. |
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- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania – #5901 page
- Articles that mention track gauge 1435 mm
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- A1A-A1A locomotives
- Electro-Motive Division locomotives
- Passenger locomotives
- Diesel locomotives of the United States
- Railway locomotives introduced in 1945
- Locomotives with cabless variants
- Standard gauge railway locomotives