EMD RS1325

The EMD RS1325 was a North American light road switcher that blended features of a switcher and a road switcher. In September 1960 EMD built a pair on switcher carbodies and mechanicals set on longer road switcher frames, serial numbers 25773 and 25774, for the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway, which numbered them 30 and 31. RS stood for a road switcher outside any named series and 1325 for the unit's horsepower. They were four-axle B-B diesels with a cab and sloping hood styled like the SW7, SW9 or SW1200, and a short hood that could have held a steam generator for passenger work, although the two built were purposely made for freight. They passed to the Illinois and Midland and Genesee and Wyoming, and both are now preserved, number 31 at the Monticello Railway Museum and number 30 at the Illinois Railway Museum.