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The Electro-Motive
Division of General Motors Corporation was the originator of diesel-electric
motive power for railroad applications. The Electro-Motive Engineering
Company was formed in 1922. That year the company began supplying power
plants for the first diesel-powered switch engines; twelve years later,
in 1934, EMD introduced the original lightweight passenger locomotive
for the Burlington Zephyr; and in 1943, the company pioneered diesel power
for mainline freight trains. Today, EMD is the world's largest builder
of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications:
intercity passenger, commuter, freight, switching, industrial and mining.
The company's headquarters, engineering facilities and parts-manufacturing
operations are located in LaGrange, Illinois, just west of Chicago. Final
assembly is conducted at Diesel Division, EMD's state-of-the-art plant
at London, Ontario, from which EMD products are exported to customers
around the world.
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Latest update: 01/05/2003.
Official website at http://www.gm.com/emd/.
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