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Pictures EMD SD Engines

Here you can find pictures of various EMD SD 26 through SD 40 model engines. As has been thought SD stands for Special Duty. These locomotives were each designed for a certain purpose and the horsepower increases as the model number goes up, but the number of axles is always 6.

Videos

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MEC 347, 377, 517, & 379, & ST 621 pull out of the siding at New Glouster with POWA on April 11th of 2005.
Video by John Erickson.
B&M 690 takes the POWA east-bound by Congress St in Portland on the 4^th of November, 2009.
Video by John Erickson.
SLR 4023 and 3004 have 393 running by Old County Rd in Woodstock, Maine on May 27^th of 2025.
Video by John Erickson.
CSXT 7787, CSXT 8089, MEC 505, & MEC 504 have a 63 car train running through Greene, Maine on June 6^th of 2025.
Video by John Erickson.

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Smokestack	The chimney on top of the smoke box to carry away the smoke. Different types of fuel required a different form of stack. Most notable was the balloon form of the wood burning engines that contained a spark arrester in the stack.

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