# EMD GP35

The EMD GP35 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between July 1963 and December 1965 and by General Motors Diesel between May 1964 and January 1966. 1251 examples were built for American railroads, 26 were built for Canadian railroads and 57 were built for Mexican railroads. Power was provided by a turbocharged EMD 567D3A 16-cylinder engine which generated 2,500 horsepower (1,860 kW).
Many railroads traded in Alco FA units and EMD F-units for GP35s, reusing the trucks and traction motors. Examples with Alco trucks include those owned by Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, Southern Railway, and Ann Arbor Railroad.

## Original buyers

| Railroad | Quantity | Road numbers | Notes |
| Alaska Railroad | 3 | 2501–2503 | |
| Ann Arbor Railroad | 10 | 385–394 | Type B Trucks |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | 161 | 1300–1460 | Renumbered 3300-3460. Most now in service with BNSF Railway, 2505 was wrecked and retired in 2007. |
| Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | 6 | 909–914 | To Seaboard Coast Line 1400-1405 |
| Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | 41 | 3500–3519, 3540–3559, 3581 | |
| Canadian National Railway | 2 | 4000–4001 | Renumbered 9300, 9301 |
| Canadian Pacific Railway | 24 | 8202–8213, 5014–5025 | 8202–8213 renumbered to 5002–5013, 5024–5025 last GP35s built |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | 42 | 3520–3539, 3560–3575 | |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | 42 | 3045, 3047 | Rebuilt from wrecked GP30s; Renumbered 3583,3584 |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | 42 | 3537 (2nd), 3563 (2nd), 3574 (2nd) | Rebuilt from wrecked GP35s |
| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | 42 | 3582 | Rebuilt from wrecked GP7 |
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | 22 | 978–999 | To Burlington Northern 2524-2545 |
| Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad | 31 | 242–259 | To Missouri Pacific Railroad 650–667 |
| Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad | 31 | 260–272 | To Missouri Pacific Railroad 668–680, Louisville and Nashville Railroad 1116–1128 |
| Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad | 12 | 360–371 | Renumbered 1500–1511 |
| Chicago and North Western Railway | 43 | 824–866 | 824 and 825 were replacements for wrecked GP9s |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad | 34 | 300–333 | |
| De Queen and Eastern Railroad | 1 | D-6 | |
| Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad | 22 | 3029–3050 | |
| Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad | 8 | 350–357 | |
| Erie Lackawanna Railroad | 36 | 2551–2586 | To Conrail 3657-3692 |
| Great Northern Railway | 24 | 3017–3040 | To Burlington Northern 2500-2523 |
| Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad | 48 | 601–648 | Type B trucks |
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad | 17 | 1100–1115, 1101 (2nd) | 1101 (2nd) wreck rebuild |
| Missouri Pacific Railroad | 50 | 600–614, 640–649 | From Texas and Pacific Railway |
| Missouri Pacific Railroad | 50 | 615–639 | |
| Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México | 55 | 8200–8254 | 8215–8229 High Short Hood with steam generator |
| New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | 1 | 910 | Rebuild of wrecked GP9. To N&W 2910 |
| New York Central Railroad | 31 | 6125–6155 | Renumbered 2369–2399; numbers retained under Penn Central and Conrail. NYC 6155 was ex-EMD 1964 the New York World's Fair unit, exx EMD 5661 |
| Norfolk and Western Railway | 69 | 200–239, 1309–1328 | |
| Norfolk and Western Railway | 69 | 1300–1301 | Low nose, ordered by Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway |
| Norfolk and Western Railway | 69 | 1302–1308 | Low nose, ordered by Wabash Railroad |
| Pennsylvania Railroad | 119 | 2252–2370 | 2309–2310 renumbered 2250–2251, and 2369–2370 renumbered 2309–2310; numbers retained under Penn Central and Conrail; 5 units to Housatonic Railroad 3600-3604 |
| Reading Company | 37 | 6501–6506, 3626–3656 | 6501–6506 renumbered 3620–3625; entire group to Conrail as 3620-3656 |
| Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad | 8 | 111–118 | Renumbered 131–138 |
| Seaboard Air Line Railroad | 10 | 535–544 | To Seaboard Coast Line 1406-1415 |
| Ferrocarril Sonora–Baja California | 2 | 2307–2308 | |
| St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | 33 | 700–732 | 725–731 Type B Trucks |
| Soo Line Railroad | 10 | 722–731 | 722 only Type B Trucks |
| Southern Railway | 78 | 210–214 | From Central of Georgia Railway, renumbered to 240–244, to NS |
| Southern Railway | 78 | 2645–2704, 2526 | 2526 Rebuilt from wrecked GP30, 2645–2702 Type B Trucks |
| Southern Railway | 78 | 2705–2715 | From Savannah and Atlanta Railway Company Type B Trucks |
| Southern Railway | 78 | 2641 | From CNO&TP, rebuilt from wrecked GP30 |
| Southern Pacific Company | 160 | 7408–7484, 7700–7782 | Renumbered 6520–6679 |
| St. Louis Southwestern Railway | 22 | 760–781 | Renumbered 6500–6519; 780–781 diverted from Southern Pacific Company, renumbered 6680–6681 |
| Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway | 3 | 900–902 | Type B trucks |
| Union Pacific Railroad | 24 | 740–763 | UP 762–763 were ex EMD 5652, 5654 first GP35s built as part of the GP35–DD35–DD35–GP35 demonstrator set. |
| Wabash Railroad | 8 | 540–547 | To Norfolk and Western 3540-3547 |
| Western Maryland Railway | 5 | 501–505 | Renumbered 3576–3580 |
| Western Pacific Railroad | 22 | 3001–3022 | |
| Totals | 1,334 | | |

## Preservation

Some GP35s are in preservation, while others are on tourist railroads, meaning they are technically preserved.
* Conway Scenic Railroad 216 regularly operates with GP38 252 on the notch train, painted in a Maine Central inspired scheme with Conway Scenic reporting marks. It was built as Norfolk and Western 1328 and was their last GP35 built. It was sold to Springfield Terminal in 1992 and renumbered to 216. It was retired and sold to Conway Scenic in 2011.
* Fillmore and Western Railway 3501 and 3502 operated in year round excursion service, and sometimes appeared in films, TV shows and commercials. 3501 and 3502 were built as Pennsylvania Railroad 2262 and 2339. 3501 was sold to SMV when the Fillmore & Western Railway ceased operations in 2021 and 3502 remains on FWRY property.
* Gulf Mobile and Ohio 631 is stored at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum. It was restored and put on display in Mobile, AL in 1997, then moved for restoration in 2008.
* Reading Company 3640 is under restoration at the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. It was the only Reading GP35 to be painted in the solid green scheme in 1974, and the society hopes to restore it to this scheme.
* Savannah and Atlanta Railway 2715 is on display at the Georgia State Railroad Museum. It was the last GP35 built for any part of Southern Railway.
* Southern Railway 2641 is on display at the former station in Clarksville, Tennessee painted for the unit's last operator before display as R.J. Corman 3501.
* Watco 3533 is in service switching in Kansas City, Missouri. It was built as Wabash 547 in 1964. It was the last locomotive ever built for the Wabash. It was donated to the National Museum of Transportation in 2006, then was brought out of retirement in 2011 and shipped to Mid America Car & Locomotive to be restored to operation, then put in service in 2014.
* Western Pacific Railroad 3002 is preserved at Ogden Union Station in Ogden, Utah and was restored to its as-delivered appearance.