The EMD SD38 is a 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between May 1967 and October 1971. It had an EMD 645 16-cylinder engine generating , compared to the turbocharged EMD 645E3 V-16 engine that produced 3000 horsepower. Aside from the 3-axle trucks and a longer frame to accommodate them, the SD38 was identical to the GP38; the SD38 had the same frame as the SD39, SD40 and SD45. 52 were built for American railroads, one was built for a Canadian railroad, four were exported to a mining firm in Jamaica and seven were exported to a mining firm in Venezuela. The SD38 was succeeded by a Dash 2 version called the EMD SD38-2.
SD38 operators Railroad Quantity Road numbers NotesBessemer and Lake Erie Railroad3861-863862 was sold to DMIR. Later was bought back by BLE. Still is a SD38 and is the only one of its kind of CNs roster.Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad5250-254To Grand Trunk Western 6250–6254; 253 and 254 still in service as Reading and Northern Railroad Nos. 2003 and 2004Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway6650-655650 sold to CITI Rail in 2011, 654 sold to Hartwell railroad in 2011, 651–653, and 655 sold to DMIR in 1992/1993.Kaiser Bauxite45101–5104Jamaica/Now called Noranda Bauxite Limited (NBL)McCloud River Railroad336-3836 & 38 on MCR property as of July 2017, 37 Now On Dakota Southern RailwayOrinoco Mining Company71021–1027VenezuelaPenn Central356925-6959All went to Conrail with same #'s. 21 to Norfolk Southern, 13 to CSX RFFSA (Brazil)453601-3645model SD38M on a shortened 60 ft 10 in (18.55 m) frame - 34 units in serviceTotals 108
SDP38 operators RailroadQuantity Road NumbersNotesKorean National Railways406201-6240Total 40
An M version of SD38 was built for the Brazil Federal Railways (RFFSA - Rede Ferroviária Federal S. A.).
Forty of a passenger version, the SDP38, were built for the Korean National Railroad in May–July 1967. The units were numbered 6351–6390. It was later changed to 6201–6240.
References
Sarberenyi, Robert. EMD SD38, SD38AC, and SDP38 Original Owners. Retrieved on August 27, 2006
External links EMD#SD38, SD38AC, SDP38 Original Owners by Robert Sarberenyi