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Inc. is currently the world's second largest builder of railroad (railway) locomotives in terms of overall sales. General Electric is the largest, overtaking EMD in the mid-1980s, and between them they have built the overwhelming majority of the loco

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EMD is the only diesel-electric locomotive manufacturer to have produced more than 70,000 engines and has the largest installed base of diesel-electric locomotives in both North America and internationally

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Additionally, EMD can lay claim to being the company that ended the dominion of the steam locomotive on the world's railroads, by both producing high-quality, reliable locomotives, and just as importantly (maybe more so) knowing how to sell them

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Electro-Motive Engineering Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922 by Harold L. Hamilton and Paul Turner
1922
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Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.

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An EMD SD40-2 owned by Montana Rail Link

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The year 2004 saw CSX take order of the first SD70ACe locomotives that are designed to be more reliable, fuel efficient, and maintainable than its predecessor AC locomotive the SD70MAC
2004
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Diesel locomotive of Danish State Railways built in Sweden in 1956 by NOHAB under license from and with components supplied by EMD, now preserved in the Danish Railway Museum
1956
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EMD builder's plate that was in use from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s

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Inc. is currently the world's second largest builder of railroad (railway) locomotives in terms of overall sales. General Electric is the largest, overtaking EMD in the mid-1980s, and between them they have built the overwhelming majority of the loco

EMD is the only diesel-electric locomotive manufacturer to have produced more than 70,000 engines and has the largest installed base of diesel-electric locomotives in both North America and internationally

Additionally, EMD can lay claim to being the company that ended the dominion of the steam locomotive on the world's railroads, by both producing high-quality, reliable locomotives, and just as importantly (maybe more so) knowing how to sell them

Electro-Motive Engineering Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922 by Harold L. Hamilton and Paul Turner

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.

An EMD SD40-2 owned by Montana Rail Link

The year 2004 saw CSX take order of the first SD70ACe locomotives that are designed to be more reliable, fuel efficient, and maintainable than its predecessor AC locomotive the SD70MAC

Diesel locomotive of Danish State Railways built in Sweden in 1956 by NOHAB under license from and with components supplied by EMD, now preserved in the Danish Railway Museum

EMD builder's plate that was in use from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s

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