EMD GP38
The EMD GP38 is a 4-axle road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1966 and December 1971. The locomotive's prime mover was an EMD 645 16-cylinder engine that generated 2,000 horsepower (1.49 MW).
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The company built 706 GP38s for North American railroads.
In 1972, EMD began making an updated model, the GP38-2.
Original Orders
Railroad | Quantity | Numbers | Notes |
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Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad | 1 | 400 | |
Altos Hornos de México | 4 | 130-131, 135-136 | |
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | 61 | 3500-3560 | Rebuilt to GP38us and renumbered to 2300-2360 |
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | 70 | 3800-3849, 4800-4819 | To CSX 2000-2049, 2100-2119 |
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad | 8 | 81-88 | |
Burlington Northern Railroad | 6 | 2072-2077 | Ordered as SP&S 200-205 |
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad | 60 | 3850-3899, 4820-4829 | To CSX 2050-2099, 2120-2129 |
Clinchfield Railroad | 10 | 2000-2009 | To Seaboard System then CSX 2180-2189 |
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad | 7 | 200-206 | To GTW 6200-6206 |
Erie Mining Company | 2 | 700-701 | |
Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste | 2 | 512-513 | |
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad | 20 | 701-720 | To Illinois Central Gulf then Illinois Central Railroad 9520-9539 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad | 20 | 4000-4019 | To Seaboard System 6221-6240, then renumbered to 2130-2149, then to CSX |
Maine Central Railroad | 13 | 251-263 | To B&M after Guilford merger |
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad | 4 | 300-304 | |
Missouri Pacific Railroad | 6 | 572-577 | |
Monongahela Railway | 5 | 2000-2004 | |
Norfolk Southern Railway | 7 | 2001-2007 | To Southern 2880-2886, rebuilt with high noses |
Penn Central Transportation Company | 263 | 7675-7937 | Biggest order of GP38s, to Conrail same numbers, dispositions vary |
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines | 15 | 2000-2014 | Built with dual control stands and an extended cab face. To Conrail 7660-7674 |
Phelps Dodge Corporation | 8 | 47-54 | |
Southern Railway | 107 | 2716-2822 | Built with high hoods. To NS same numbers |
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway | 1 | 80 | To Southern then NS 2879 |
Texas Mexican Railway | 4 | 857-860 | |
Rebuilds
A number of GP38s have been rebuilt into the equivalent of a GP38-2.
Conversely, a number of higher horsepower 40 Series locomotives have been rebuilt into the equivalent of a GP38-2 (GP38AC), by the removal of the turbocharger and the substitution of twin Roots blowers.
In 2007, Norfolk Southern rebuilt a 1969 GP38 into an experimental electric locomotive dubbed the Altoona Works BP4.
References
- Marre, Louis A. & Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1989). The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-89024-088-4. LCCN 88083625. OCLC 19959644.
- Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89024-026-7.
- Sarberenyi, Robert. EMD GP38 and GP38AC Original Owners
- Norfolk Southern 2014 Sustainability Report