Kansas City Southern - EMD E6A Diesel Locomotive

Trains are a fascinating piece of our history. EMD E6A Loco with Pusher. Wikipedia picture The EMD E6 was a 2,000-horsepower passenger train locomotive manufactured by Electro-Motive Corporation, and its corporate successor, General Motors Electro-Motive Division, of La Grange, Illinois. E6A was manufactured from November 1939 to September 1942, and 91 were produced. The booster version, or E6B, was manufactured from April 1940 to February 1942, and 26 were produced. The 2,000-horsepower (1,500 kW) was achieved by putting two 1,000-horsepower (750 kW), 12-cylinder, model 567 engines in the engine compartment. Each engine drove its own electrical generator to power the traction motors. The E6 was the seventh model in a long line of passenger diesel of similar design known as EMD E-units. Compared with passenger locomotives made later by EMD, the noses of the E3, E4, E5, and E6 cab units had pronounced slants when viewed from the side. Therefore, these four models have been nicknamed "slant nose" units. Later E models had the "bulldog nose" of the F series. One interesting E6 variant custom-produced for the Missouri Pacific was the model EMC AA. This was a motorcar-style unit which had only one prime mover and 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) and substituted a baggage compartment where the other diesel V-12 would have been.