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Model of 1200 hp American diesel switcher
Performance figures Power output 1,200 hp (895 kW)
The EMD SW7 was a
kW)
12-567A engine .
[1] The SW7 replaced the earlier 1,000 horsepower
NW2 switcher in EMD's catalog.
[3] A total of 489 SW7 locomotives were produced. The majority of the SW7s were built by EMD Plant #3 in Cleveland, Ohio.
[citation needed In addition, 15
TR4 cow-calf paired sets were produced.
[3] SW7 production was discontinued in 1951 in favor of the new SW9 .[2]
Original buyers
Railroad
Quantity
Road numbers
Arkansas and Louisiana Missouri Railway
1
11
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 9
643–651
Central Railroad of New Jersey 4
1080–1083
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway 2
800–801
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 26
5214–5239
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad 6
126–131
Chicago and Eastern Illinois (Chicago Heights Terminal and Transfer Railroad )
2
132–133
Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad 3
101–103
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 20
9249–9268
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
1
1646
Clinchfield Railroad 6
350–355
Colorado and Southern Railway 1
154
Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad 15
103–117
Cornwall Railroad 3
120–122
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad 3
116–118
Detroit Terminal Railroad 1
116
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad 5
920–924
Erie Railroad 6
428–433
Great Northern Railway
11
163–170, 11–13
Illinois Central Railroad 50
9300–9319, 9400–9429
Kansas City Southern Railway 10
1300–1309
Kansas City Southern Railway (Louisiana and Arkansas Railway )
6
1310–1315
Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad 1
12
Lehigh Valley Railroad 5
220–224
Louisiana Midland Railway 1
10
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 22
2245–2266
Maine Central Railroad 3
331–333
Missouri Pacific Railroad 5
9142–9146
Monessen Southwestern Railway 1
21
Montour Railroad 1
72
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway 10
24–33
New York Central Railroad 34
8851–8855, 8880–8897, 8911–8921
New York Central (Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad )
40
8835–8850, 8856–8879
New York Central (Chicago River and Indiana Railroad )
6
8898–8903
New York Central (Peoria and Eastern Railway )
7
8904–8910
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
(“Nickel Plate Road”)3
230–232
Northern Pacific Railway 8
107–114
Pennsylvania Railroad 48
8861–8868, 8871–8872, 9358–9395
Peoria and Pekin Union Railway 5
406–410
Phelps Dodge Corporation
(New Cornelia Branch Mine)1
6
Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England Railroad 4
31–34
River Terminal Railway 2
61–62
Southern Railway (Alabama Great Southern Railroad )5
6505–6509
Southern Railway (Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway )
14
6060–6073
Southern Railway (Georgia Southern and Florida Railway )
4
8200–8203
Southern Railway (New Orleans and North Eastern Railway
)
12
6852–6863
St. Louis Southwestern Railway (“Cotton Belt”)4
1054–1057
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
(“Frisco”)5
300–304
Texas and Pacific Railway 4
1020–1023
Union Pacific Railroad 25
1800–1824
Union Railroad
4
571–574
Wabash Railroad 8
355–362
Weyerhaueser Timber Company 2
300–301
Woodward Iron Company 2
50–51
Youngstown and Southern Railway
2
70–71
Total
489
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