The EMD GP15D is a four-axle B-B switcher locomotive built by MotivePower and Electro-Motive Diesel. It has a Caterpillar 3512 V12 prime mover, which EMD calls a 12-170B15-T2, developing 1,500 horsepower. Ten units were manufactured by EMD in June 2000 and another ten were built for Amtrak by MotivePower in 2004. It is a hood unit with lowered long and short hoods based on MotivePower's earlier MP1500D, with changes mainly in the control electronics that make it easier to use. Although marketed as a switcher, it has a top speed of 70 miles per hour, which also suits road switcher duties. It resembles the contemporary GP20D in appearance, except that the twenty GP15D units built have no dynamic brakes and a lower rating, 1,500 horsepower against 2,000.
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The GP15D is a four-axle B-B switcher locomotive built by MotivePower and Electro-Motive Diesel.
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Ten units were manufactured by EMD during June 2000.
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develops a total power output of 1,500 horsepower (1,120 kW)
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the 20 GP15D units produced to date
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It was supplied with a Caterpillar 3512 (called a 12-170B15-T2 by EMD) V12 prime mover
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it has a top speed of 70 mph (113 km/h)
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The GP15D is a four-axle B-B switcher locomotive built by MotivePower and Electro-Motive Diesel.
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