Tags: Locomotive.
The EMC E2 was an American passenger-train diesel locomotive which as a single unit developed 1800 horsepower (1300 kW). Typically operated as a unit set (A – B – B) the three unit lashup developed 5400 horsepower. The units were of the A1A-A1A wheel arrangement and manufactured by Electro-Motive Corporation of La Grange Illinois.Two sets (each of three units A-B-B) were produced in 1937 for named passenger trains; the first set (SF-1 SF-2 and SF-3) for the City of San Francisco.
