Jan 13, EMD “SD9” Locomotives

The City of Denver was part of the UP’s City fleet running between Denver and Chicago. This particular train survived until Amtrak began service.

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

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 […]