EMD GP39-2

EMD GP39-2

CSX 4318 EMD GP39-2 at Deerfield Beach Seaboard Air Line Railway Station

Type and origin Power type Diesel-electric Builder General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Model GP39-2 Build date 1974 – 1984 Total produced 239

Specifications AAR wheel arr. B-B Gauge 4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Length 59 ft 2 in (18.03 m) Prime mover EMD 645E3 Engine type V12 diesel Cylinders 12

Performance figures Power output 2,300 hp (1,720 kW)

Career Locale United States

The EMD GP39-2 is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1974 and 1984. 239 examples of this locomotive were built for American railroads. Part of the EMD Dash 2 line, the GP39-2 was an upgraded GP39. The power for this locomotive was provided by a turbocharged 12-cylinder EMD 645E3 diesel engine, which could produce 2,300 horsepower (1,720 kW).

Unlike the original GP39, which sold only 23 examples as railroads preferred the reliable un-turbocharged GP38, the GP39-2 was reasonably successful, ascribed to its better fuel economy relative to the GP38-2 which became of more interest in the energy-crisis 1970s, and to its better performance at altitude.^[1]

Original Owners

The GP39-2 sold to five railroads and two industrial operators:^[2]

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway	106	3600-3705
Burlington Northern Railroad	40	2700–2739
Delaware and Hudson Railway	20	7601-7620
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation	32	1-3,705-711,779-799,905
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad	20	360-379
Phelps Dodge Corporation	1	33
Reading Railroad	20	3401-3420

References

1. Foster, Gerald (1996). A Field Guide to Trains of North America. Houghton Mifflin Field Guides. ISBN 0-395-70112-0.
2. "EMD GP39-2 Order Numbers". The UNofficial EMD Homepage. Retrieved 2006-12-08.

External links

Media related to EMD GP39-2 locomotives at Wikimedia Commons

• Sarberenyi, Robert. EMD GP39-2 Original Owners