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[edit]

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[edit]

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]