Jan 13, EMD “SD9” Locomotives

The E series was EMD’s successful line of passenger diesels which spanned nearly 30 years of production from the 1930s to 1960s.

The SD9 was the six-axle version of its popular and successful GP9. It proved the bestselling first-generation road-switcher EMD cataloged.

Conrail, short for the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was a government creation to save the Northeastern rail network in the 1970s.