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unusual facts about EMD


Southern Railway of British Columbia

It operates a fleet of 29 locomotives, mostly consisting of EMD GP-9 & SW900 locomotives.


Charlotte Morel

Like e.g. Emmie Charayron, David Hauss and Laurent Vidal, Morel is also a member of the French Military Triathlon Team (Equipe de France militaire de triathlon EFM), which she joined in 2008 and which in summer 2010 moved from Montpellier to the Ecoles militaires de Draguignan (EMD) in Morel's native town.

Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad

It brought its first diesels, EMD SW7 switchers 116-118, in April 1950 and followed them with two EMD GP7s each in January, (41,42) and November (43,44) of 1951.

Downer EDI Rail GT46C ACe

The GT46C ACe are a model of diesel locomotives built in Australia by Downer Rail using EMD components between 2007 and 2012.

Economy of Bihar

General Electric Co. (GE) and Electro Motive Diesel Inc. (EMD) will compete for the second contract—to build and supply 1,000 diesel train engines for the national transporter.

Electronically controlled unit injector

This system is employed primarily on Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) locomotive, marine and stationary engines, and primarily on the 710 family of diesel engines.

EMD LWT12

First one, EMD serial number 20826, entered service with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad to pull the "Talgo Jet Rocket" train between Chicago and Peoria.

Four-stroking

Some large engines, such as those from EMD, use a turbocharger with an auxiliary mechanical drive to give better scavenging from low rpm, avoiding this risk.

Gateway Technology

Gateway Destination vectors are commercially available from Invitrogen, EMD (Novagen) and Covalys.

Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad

However, in December 2003, the KB&S received a group of six EMD GP38-2M locomotives rebuilt from ex-New York Central Railroad GP40s.

Laminopathy

Mutations implicated in other nuclear envelopathies were found in genes coding for lamin-binding proteins such as lamin B receptor (LBR gene), emerin (EMD gene) and LEM domain-containing protein 3 (LEMD3 gene) and prelamin-processing enzymes such as the zinc metalloproteinase STE24 (ZMPSTE24 gene).

Martin P. Blomberg

He became well known for the development of the truck frame for the diesel-electric locomotives of the Electro Motive Division (EMD).

Power assembly

The use of a fiber optic endoscope (flexible borescope) may facilitate this inspection and evaluation, but this is not a requirement, nor is it a part of EMD's maintenance procedures.

Safinamide

Safinamide (EMD 1195686) is a candidate drug against Parkinson's disease with multiple methods of action.

South African Class 39-000

The original locomotives had all originally been designed by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD) and had been built by General Motors South Africa (GMSA) in Port Elizabeth between 1974 and 1981.

Wilmington and Western Railroad

SW900 #915 - built January 1956 by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors for the River Terminal Railway as #97; later acquired by Republic Steel and renumbered #915; leased to WWRC in fall 2008 for three-month period.


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