Jan 13, EMD “SD9” Locomotives

The Kennebec was a joint Boston & Maine/Maine Central train operating the busy Boston to Bangor corridor, which was later upgraded to streamlined status.

The GP9 followed the GP7 in 1954. With a slight increase in horsepower, EMD’s second model was amazingly even more successful with more than 4,300 […]

The SD9 was the six-axle version of its popular and successful GP9. It proved the bestselling first-generation road-switcher EMD cataloged.