EMC E4
Template:No footnotes Template:Infobox locomotive The EMC E4 was a Template:Convert, A1A-A1A passenger train-hauling diesel locomotive built by the Electro-Motive Corporation of La Grange, Illinois. All were built for the Seaboard Air Line Railway. The E4 was the fifth model in a long line of passenger diesels of similar design known as EMD E-units.
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The front noses of the EA, E1A, E3A, E4A, E5A, and E6A cab units had a pronounced slant when viewed from the side. Therefore, these six models have been nicknamed "slant nose" units. Later E-unit models received the same blunted "bulldog nose" as the F-units.
Ironically, the E4 was produced before the E3. Both models were identical, save for the E4 having a pneumatically-operated nose door passageway in order to facilitate crew movement between units in a locomotive consist.
All the E4s were retired and scrapped by 1964.
Original ownersEdit
| Railroad | Quantity A units |
Quantity B units |
Road numbers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electro-Motive Corporation (demonstrator) | 1 | — | 1939 | to SAL 3013 |
| Electro-Motive Corporation (demonstrator) | — | 1 | 1939B | renumbered EMC 1940B, to SAL 3104 |
| Seaboard Air Line Railway | 13 | — | 3000–3012 | |
| Seaboard Air Line Railway | — | 4 | 3100–3103 |
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ReferencesEdit
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