by Pneudyne
This thread is started partly to provide documentary evidence for EMD export locomotive models that were catalogued but not built, in support of the thread Diesels Catalogued, but not Built in the forum General Discussion: Locomotives, Rolling Stock, and Equipment. But it may also serve as an accumulator for information on EMD export models, in a similar way to the parallel thread GE Export Diesels in the GE forum.
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The first export model to be considered is the G16, which was built only in C-C form, with the B-B and A1A-A1A variants apparently falling into the catalogued-but-not-built class.
That all three wheel arrangements were offered is recorded in the Kalmbach book “Our GM Scrapbook”, of 1971. On page 72 it was stated: “What evolved was the 1950/1800 h.p. G16, with optional wheel arrangements (B-B, A1A-A1A, C-C) to adapt it to any gauge.” The G16 was said to have evolved from the military MRS-1 design. But I suspect that it may also have incorporated some elements of the never-built R, universal gauge version.
The G16 was released in 1958, the year in which EMD considerably expanded its standard export model range (from EMD and GMD production), which immediately previously had consisted of the G8 and G12 models. That said, its overseas licensees were building various customized models based upon standard components, particularly for the standard and broad gauge markets. So with these included, its overall export model range was quite broad.
Perhaps to mark its 1968 efforts, EMD placed a six-page advertisement in the trade journal “Diesel Railway Traction” for 1958 November, covering all of the standard export models. The first three pages thereof are attached here.
Cheers,
The primary web source on EMD exports is that of Larry Russell; http://emdexport.railfan.net/home.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
The first export model to be considered is the G16, which was built only in C-C form, with the B-B and A1A-A1A variants apparently falling into the catalogued-but-not-built class.
That all three wheel arrangements were offered is recorded in the Kalmbach book “Our GM Scrapbook”, of 1971. On page 72 it was stated: “What evolved was the 1950/1800 h.p. G16, with optional wheel arrangements (B-B, A1A-A1A, C-C) to adapt it to any gauge.” The G16 was said to have evolved from the military MRS-1 design. But I suspect that it may also have incorporated some elements of the never-built R, universal gauge version.
The G16 was released in 1958, the year in which EMD considerably expanded its standard export model range (from EMD and GMD production), which immediately previously had consisted of the G8 and G12 models. That said, its overseas licensees were building various customized models based upon standard components, particularly for the standard and broad gauge markets. So with these included, its overall export model range was quite broad.
Perhaps to mark its 1968 efforts, EMD placed a six-page advertisement in the trade journal “Diesel Railway Traction” for 1958 November, covering all of the standard export models. The first three pages thereof are attached here.
Cheers,