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  • Electro-Motive Diesel
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  • Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (formerly the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation) is currently the world's second largest builder of railroad locomotives in terms of overall sales. General Electric is the largest, overtaking EMD in the mid-1980s, and between them they have built the overwhelming majority of the locomotives in service in North America and a large proportion of those in the rest of the world as well. EMD is the only diesel-electric locomotive manufacturer to have produced more than 70,000 units and has the largest installed base of diesel-electric locomotives in both North America and internationally .
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num employees
  • ~2600
location city
  • La Grange, Illinois
Fate
  • AMTK406A
Foundation
  • Cleveland, Ohio
  • Split from General Motors: 2005
Company Name
  • Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.
Key people
  • Jerry Greenwald, Chairman
  • John Hamilton, CEO and President
Homepage
Industry
  • Railroad
company type
  • Private
Services
  • Locomotive maintenance
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Predecessor
  • Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation
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  • Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. (formerly the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation) is currently the world's second largest builder of railroad locomotives in terms of overall sales. General Electric is the largest, overtaking EMD in the mid-1980s, and between them they have built the overwhelming majority of the locomotives in service in North America and a large proportion of those in the rest of the world as well. EMD is the only diesel-electric locomotive manufacturer to have produced more than 70,000 units and has the largest installed base of diesel-electric locomotives in both North America and internationally .