EMD GP39-2

An 'EMD GP39-2' is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1974 and 1984. 239 examples of this locomotive were built for American railroads. Part of the EMD Dash 2 line, the GP39-2 was an upgraded GP39. Power for this locomotive was provided by a turbocharged 12-cylinder EMD 645E3 diesel engine, which could produce 2,300 horsepower.
Unlike the original GP39, which sold only 23 examples as railroads preferred the reliable un-turbocharged GP38, the GP39-2 was reasonably successful, ascribed to its better fuel economy relative to the GP38-2 which became of more interest in the energy-crisis 1970s, and to its better performance at altitude.^[1]

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Original Owners

References

Original Owners

The GP39-2 sold to five railroads and two industrial operators:^[2]

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway	106	3600-3705
Burlington Northern Railroad	40	2700-2739
Delaware and Hudson Railway	20	7601-7620
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation	32	1-3,705-711,779-799,905
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad	20	360-379
PHDX	1	33
Reading Railroad	20	3401-3420

References

1. A Field Guide to Trains of North America, Foster, Gerald, , , Houghton Mifflin Field Guides, 1996, ISBN 0395701120
2. EMD GP39-2 Order Numbers