Electro-Motive Diesel | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-15

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00:01:29 1 History
00:01:38 1.1 Early years
00:08:21 1.2 1940-60
00:15:15 1.3 1960–1985
00:18:01 1.4 1985–2000
00:20:25 1.5 2000-present
00:24:08 2 Manufacturing and assembly facilities
00:24:37 2.1 EMD La Grange (McCook)
00:25:33 2.2 EMD London
00:27:53 2.3 EMD San Luis Potosí
00:28:14 2.4 EMD Muncie
00:29:17 2.5 Subcontractors and licensees
00:33:00 3 Maintenance and support facilities
00:33:29 4 Engines
00:33:38 4.1 Locomotive engines
00:36:16 4.2 Stationary and marine engines
00:36:43 4.2.1 EMD 'pancake' diesels
00:39:05 5 Reporting marks
00:39:34 6 See also



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Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry. The company is owned by Caterpillar through its subsidiary Progress Rail Services.Electro-Motive Diesel traces its roots to the Electro-Motive Engineering Corporation, a designer and marketer of gasoline-electric self-propelled rail cars founded in 1922 and later renamed Electro-Motive Company (EMC). In 1930, General Motors purchased Electro-Motive Company and the Winton Engine Co. and in 1941 expanded EMC's realm to locomotive engine manufacturing as Electro-Motive Division (EMD).
In 2005, GM sold EMD to Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners, which formed Electro-Motive Diesel to facilitate the purchase. In 2010, Progress Rail Services completed the purchase of Electro-Motive Diesel from Greenbriar, Berkshire, and others.
EMD's headquarters, engineering facilities and parts manufacturing operations are based in McCook, Illinois, while its final locomotive assembly line is located in Muncie, Indiana. EMD also operates a traction motor maintenance, rebuild and overhaul facility in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
As of 2008, EMD employed approximately 3,260 people, and in 2010 it held approximately 30 percent of the market for diesel-electric locomotives in North America.