When Was EMD Founded?

Does EMD exist?

EMD currently maintains major facilities in McCook, Illinois, and Muncie, Indiana in the United States, Sete Lagoas, Brazil and San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

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Is Electro-Motive still in business?

Electro-Motive continues to produce locomotives today but in name only; the company is now a division of Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company.

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What was the first EMD locomotive?

The first units produced for a customer were built in December 1940 and January 1941 for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and numbered the 100 set. These were the first diesel-electric locomotives ever produced with dynamic braking, a system developed at the insistence of the railroad and with its assistance.

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When did EMC become EMD?

After figuring out that Winton's primary customer was the Electro-Motive Company, which built gasoline-powered railcars, GM decided to buy EMC as well. In 1941, the companies were formally merged to become the Electro-Motive Division, or EMD.

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