Discover the Diesel That Changed Everything: The Story of the EMD GP7 Locomotive Step back into the golden age of railroading and explore the revolutionary EMD GP7 — a locomotive that helped bring an end to the steam era and shaped the future of diesel-electric traction. First introduced by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division in 1949, the GP7 was the very first EMD road-switcher built on a true hood-unit design — setting the standard for generations of locomotives to come. In this in-depth v

EMD HQ and Engineering EMD’s factory in McCook, Illinois, was one of the largest industrial facilities in the Chicago, employing up to 14,000 people and spanning 4 million square feet. The McCook plant was a major hub for EMD’s locomotive production, with 14,750 locomotives being produced there over its 56-year lifespan. Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) was formerly a division of General Motors. EMD has been owned by Progress Rail since 2010. The predecessor Electro-Motive Engineering Corporation, fo