EMD GM6W

The EMD GM6W is a diesel-electric locomotive that Electro-Motive Diesel introduced in 1960 as an export model switcher. The prototype spent its entire life at the General Motors plant at LaGrange, Illinois, and ended at the Pielet Brothers scrap yard beside the EMD plant, where it was eventually scrapped. The model inspired only limited sales: four went to the Chemin de Fer de l'Etat Libanais in Lebanon, and one known unit, built in January 1961, was bought by the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine at Stilfontein in North West Province, South Africa. The article carries an original owners heading but gives no further roster, so the full sales list for this small export switcher remains to be sourced elsewhere.