VIA FEATURES:
- Sinclair Antenna
- Roller bearing trucks
- 600 gallon fuel tank
- Officially licensed product of Via Rail Canada®
In 1987 VIA purchased 3 SW1000’s second hand from Inland Steel in Indiana for use in their yards in their Montréal Maintenance Centre.
SW1000 LOCOMOTIVE NEW FEATURES:
- Operating ground lights
- Newly designed can motor is more powerful and quieter than before
- DCC-ready models feature 21-pin plug
- DCC & sound models feature Tsunami2 sound with dual cube speakers
- LED lighting for long life and reliable operation
SW1000 LOCOMOTIVE STANDARD FEATURES:
- Lit ground lights
- Detailed cab interior
- Drop steps unless noted
- MU stands
- Exhaust stack
- Printed numberboards
- Fine scale handrails
- Signal hoses with silver glad hands unless noted
- Front and rear trainline hoses with silver glad hands
- Separately applied wire grab irons
- See through radiator intake grille and cab windows
- Low or high mounted windshield wipers per prototype
- Rectangular or oval builder’s plate where appropriate
- Separately applied Air tank
- McHenry® scale knuckle couplers - Kadee® compatible
- All-wheel drive with precision gears for smooth & quiet operation
- All-wheel electrical pickup provides reliable current flow
- DCC-ready features Quick Plug™ plug-and-play technology
- Improved 5-pole skew wound can motor with flywheels and multi-link drivetrain for with 21-pin NEM connector
- Wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track
- Window packaging for easy viewing
- Highly-detailed, injection molded body
- Painted and printed for realistic decoration
- Fully assembled and ready-to-run
- Interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage
- Minimum radius: 18”
PROTOTYPE SPECIFIC INFORMATION
An EMD SW1000 is a 4 axle diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between June 1966 and October 1972. Power was provided by an EMD 645E 8-cylinder engine which generated 1,000 horsepower. This locomotive was built on the same common frame as the EMD SW1500, giving it an overall length of 44 feet 8 inches. Over one-third of SW1000 production went to the Burlington Northern Railroad.
The SW1000 was taller than previous EMD switchers, which posed a problem for industrial customers: at many facilities, tight clearances existed, and the SW1000 exceeded them. As a result, most production went to railroads, not industries.
114 EMD SW1000 units were built for railroads and industrial operations in the United States.
Currently 2 EMD SW1000 units are owned and operated by VIA Rail Canada in the Montreal Maintenance Centre.
