Talk:EMD SW1

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Someone should disambig the link to Union Railroad - I have no idea which one is meant. --SPUI (talk) 08:56, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The first EMC SW1 is the #755 Demonstrator built in December 1938. It was sold to Inland Steel as their #51. Source A.J.Kristopans EMD Serial Number Page http://community-1.webtv.net/ajkristopans/SWITCHERS201Aand567/ --207.69.137.21 17:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Dorin, Patrick C. (1972). Chicago and North Western Power. Superior Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 0-87564-715-4. has C&NWRy drawings and spec sheets for their loco’s, that’s where most of this comes from. Sammy D III (talk) 18:54, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the Ballard Terminal Railroad

They are not an original owner of this model. Their unit is ex Milwaukee Road, as evidenced by the article's own citations and the Wikipedia's entry for the switching road. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:A645:2100:68B0:A887:A5DB:349C (talk) 11:31, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mechanical Details

It may be worth noting in a separate section of this article or in the powertrain section that the SW1 does not feature a notched throttle, or at least originally they didn’t. Several models of EMD switchers came this way, featuring an air throttle rather than a notched throttle. Perhaps this is an irrelevant detail that only train geeks like me would really care about, but it was very interesting to find this detail out when I operated Southern Pacific 1006 for the first time. Anyway, should this be added? What does everyone think? GenesisFan99 (talk) 16:07, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you can find a reliable source backing this up, it might be worthwhile to mention as part of maybe 1 sentence. We don't want to give disproportionate weight to details. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 00:33, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]