EMD History
Compiled by Don Strack
This page was last updated on November 21, 2011.
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Articles By Preston Cook
Winton 201A Diesel Engine — A article originally done as a PowerPoint presentation for use at railfan gatherings.
EMD's 567 Diesel Engine — An article about the development of EMD's 567 series diesel engine.
EMD Technical Publications — An article that documents the various publications EMD produced to support its locomotive production.
USS Atlanta's Winton Engine — An article about the Winton diesel engine used onboard the USS Atlanta; includes history of Winton diesel engines.
Articles About EMD
EMD History Timeline — A chronological history of Electro-Motive
Wikipedia article about Electro Motive Diesel, formerly Electro Motive Division of General Motors.
Dick Dilworth and the EMD GP7 — The story of how the EMD GP7 was designed, by EMD's Dick Dilworth (from The Dilworth Story, by Franklin M. Reck, Copyright 1954 by Electro-Motive Division, General Motors Corporation, pages 94-99)
The Dilworth Story — An on-line version at Archive.org of the biography of Dick Dilworth, EMD's chief engineer and designer, by Franklin Reck.
EMD Early GP Locomotives — Commentary on the development of EMD's GP locomotives, by noted locomotive historian Scott Chatfield.
EMD In North Salt Lake — Information about EMD's facility in North Salt Lake, Utah, five miles north of Salt Lake City, occupied by EMD from 1955 to 1965, then by GE from 1971 to today.
Max Ephriam — An article from the Chicago Tribune in August 1995 about Max Ephriam, retired EMD Chief Engineer.
Alco versus EMD — An article by Albert Churella about why Alco failed and why EMD succeeded. (originally published in the Harvard Business History Review; copyright 1995 by President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Full title is: "Corporate culture and marketing in the American railway locomotive industry: American Locomotive and Electro-Motive respond to dieselization."
(see also Trains magazine, Volume 61, Number 9, September 2001, for an excellent article, "Death by Diesel," on a very similar subject.)
EMD Builder Plates — A summary of the styles of metal plates that EMC/EMD used on it locomotives, from 1939 to after 1988.
EMD MP15DC - MP15AC - MP15T Rosters — Rosters of EMD's MP15 series locomotives compiled by Rob Sarberenyi.
EMD Specifications — PDF files of drawings included in EMD locomotive specification books.
EMD's HT-C Truck — A PDF file of the original ASME paper from 1972, presented at the ASME-IEEE Joint Conference in March 1972; describing the development and design of the HT-C truck first used in large numbers on EMD's Dash 2 line in 1972..
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