SW9 EMD switcher Profile and Models

SW9 EMD switcher

CPMY 7014 at Coopersville, Michigan in August 2012. ©Joe Ross

The EMD SW9 is a model of diesel switcher locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between November 1950 and December 1953. Additional SW9s were built by General Motors Diesel in Ontario Canada from December 1950 to March 1953. Power was provided by an EMD 567B 12-cylinder engine, producing 1,200 horsepower. 786 examples of this model were built for American railroads and 29 were built for Canadian railroads. The SW9 was EMD's successor to the SW7. Like the SW7, the SW9 retained a power output of 1,200 hp and the same general design. 

(Information provided via Wikipedia)

Type of Locomotive

Diesel-Electric

Builder

General Motors EMD
General Motors GMD

Build Dates

1950 to 1953

Total Built

815

Power Output

1,200hp

Wheel Configuration

Bo-Bo

Operated By

Aliquippa & Southern
Apalachicola Northern
Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri
Ashley, Drew & Northern
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal
Baltimore & Ohio
Bauxite & Northern
Bellefonte Central
Belt Railway of Chicago
Boston & Maine
Cambria & Indiana
Campbell's Creek
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Central Georgia
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Charleston & Western Carolina
Chattanooga Traction Company
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Illinois Western
Chicago & North Western
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Chicago, West Pullman & Southern
Conemaugh & Black Lick
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Detroit & Toledo Shore Line
Duluth, Missable & Iron Range
Erie
Florida East Coast
Georgia
Grand Trunk Western
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Great Northern
Great Western Railway of Colorado
Houston Belt & Terminal Railway
Illinois Central
Indiana Harbor Belt
Anaconda Copper
Kirby Lumber Company
Kosmos Timber Company
Lehigh Valley
Louisville & Nashville
Maine Central
Maryland & Pennsylvania
Milwaukee Road
Mississippi Central
Missouri Pacific
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Monessen Southwestern
Montour
Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis
New York Central
New York, Chicago & St Louis (Nickel Plate)
Northern Pacific
Oliver Iron Mining Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Peoria & Pekin Union
Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England
Pittsburg & Shawmut
Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny
Republic Steel Corporation
Reserve Mining Company
Soo Line
Southern Pacific
Spokane, Portland & Seattle
St Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt)
St Louis-San Francisco (Frisco)
Steelton & Highspire
Steel Company of Canada
Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis
Texas & Pacific
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo
Union Pacific
Union
Wabash
Western Pacific
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
Wheeling Steel

Main Duties

Shunting

In Service Until

Present

Surviving Examples

Many still in service

 

Products awaiting categorisation

Scale Brand Image Construction Type DCC Capability Product Code Product Title Livery
O Gauge (1:43 Scale) Atlas No image available RTR/RTUse/Pre-assembled Not set 6179-1
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SW9 EMD 1872 of the Union Pacific Union Pacific
O Gauge (1:43 Scale) MTH No image available RTR/RTUse/Pre-assembled Not set 30-2167-1
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SW-9 Switcher #1834 Union Pacific (DCC sound fitted, 3-rail) Awaiting Categorisation
HO Gauge (1:87 Scale) Kato 37-117Kato SW9 EMD 9240 of Conrail RTR/RTUse/Pre-assembled Not set 37-117Kato
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SW9 EMD 9240 of Conrail Conrail
HO Gauge (1:87 Scale) Kato 37-118 SW9 EMD 9241 of Conrail RTR/RTUse/Pre-assembled Not set 37-118
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SW9 EMD 9241 of Conrail Conrail