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- EMD_F-unit abstract "EMD F-units were a line of diesel-electric locomotives produced between November 1939 and November 1960 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors-Diesel Division. Final assembly for all F-units was at the GM-EMD plant at La Grange, Illinois and the GMDD plant in London, Ontario, Canada. They were sold to railroads throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and a few were exported to Saudi Arabia. The term F-unit refers to the model numbers given to each successive type (i.e. F3, F7, etc), all of which began with the letter F. The \"F\" originally meant Fourteen, as in 1,400 horsepower, not F as in Freight. Longer E-units for passenger service had twin 900 horsepower diesel engines (called \"prime movers\" in this type of application). The \"E\" meant Eighteen as in 1,800 horsepower. Similarly, for early model EMD switchers \"S\" meant Six hundred and \"N\" meant Nine hundred horsepower.F-units were originally designed for freight service – although many without steam generators (for steam-heating passenger cars) pulled short-distance, mainly daytime passenger trains. Some carriers even equipped small numbers of their Fs with steam generators for long-haul passenger service. On the other hand, Santa Fe maintained a large fleet of fully equipped, high-speed F3s and F7s in \"warbonnet\" paint schemes built exclusively for top-tier passenger trains such as the \"Chief\", \"Super Chief\", and \"El Capitan\". Almost all F-units were B-B locomotives, meaning that they ran on two Blomberg B two-axle trucks with all axles powered. The prime mover in F-units was a sixteen-cylinder EMD 567 series mechanically aspirated two-stroke diesel engine, progressing from model 16-567 through 16-567D.Structurally, the locomotive was a carbody unit, with the body as the main load-bearing structure, designed like a bridge truss and covered with cosmetic panels. The so-called bulldog nose was a distinguishing feature of the locomotive's appearance, and made a lasting impression in the mind of the traveling public.The F-units were the most successful \"first generation\" road (main line) diesel locomotives in North America, and were largely responsible for superseding steam locomotives in road freight service. Before this, diesel units were mostly only built as switcher locomotives, and only used in rail yards.F-units were sometimes known as \"covered wagons\", due to the similarity in appearance of the roof of an F-unit to the canvas roof of a Conestoga wagon, an animal-drawn wagon used in the westward expansion of the United States during the late 18th and 19th centuries. When a train's locomotive consist included only F-units, the train would then be called a wagon train. These two usages are still popular with the railfan community.".
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink CF7.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink California_Zephyr.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:B-B_locomotives.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:Diesel_locomotives_of_the_United_States.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:Electro-Motive_Division_locomotives.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:Locomotives_with_cabless_variants.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:North_American_streamliner_trains.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Category:Standard_gauge_railway_locomotives.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Diesel_engine.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink EMD_E-unit.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink EMD_F3.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink EMD_F9.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink EMD_FL9.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink EMD_FP7.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Saudi_Arabia.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Steam_generator_(boiler).
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Steam_generator_(railroad).
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Super_Chief.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Switcher.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Wagon_train.
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink Watt.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink File:Amtrak_San_Francisco_Zephyr.jpg.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink File:Crm_california_zephyr.jpg.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink File:EMD_FL-9_NYC_2013.jpg.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLink File:Joliet_CRIP_Aug_1963_3-16.jpg.
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- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "EMD F-unit".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "EMD F3".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F unit".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F units".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F-Unit".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F-series".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F-unit series".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F-unit".
- EMD_F-unit wikiPageWikiLinkText "F-units".
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