EMD Locomotive DDA40X / Western Pacific Rail Road as 3D Model

Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc., also referred as "EMD", is owned by Caterpillar through its wholly owned subsidiary Progress Rail Services Corporation. The company designs, manufactures and sells diesel-electric locomotives and diesel power engines under the Electro-Motive Diesel brand. EMD offers an extensive range of locomotive products in the rail industry.
Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. traces its roots to the Electro-Motive Engineering Corporation, founded in 1922. In 1930, General Motors Corporation purchased the Winton Engine Co. and Winton's primary customer of gasoline engines, Electro-Motive Corporation, a gasoline-electric car manufacturer, combining the two to form GM's Electro-Motive Division (EMD) on January 1, 1941.
In 2005, GM sold EMD to Greenbriar Equity Group LLC and Berkshire Partners LLC, which formed Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc., to facilitate the purchase. On August 2, 2010, Progress Rail Services Corporation completed the purchase of Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. from Greenbriar, Berkshire, et al. making Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Progress Rail Services Corporation.
EMD's headquarters, engineering facilities and parts manufacturing operations are physically located in McCook, Illinois. EMD's final assembly operations were located in London, Ontario, Canada, until the plant's closure in February 2012. A new assembly site was opened in late 2011 in Muncie, Indiana. EMD operates a traction motor maintenance, rebuild and overhaul facility in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
As of 2008, EMD employed approximately 3,260 people. In 2010 EMD held approximately 30 percent of the market for diesel-electric locomotives in North America.

Our model of a locomotive built by EMD shows the building number 6925 of the West Pacific Railroad (abbreviated WP) is an old railroad company in the United States. It operated a main line from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and headed branch lines in rights, the various subsidiaries, such as those of the Sacramento Northern Railway, the Tidewater Southern Railway, the Indian Valley Railroad and the Deep Creek Railroad.
The model is out of 185 possessions and reproduces the original very well. Everyone who is interested in the North American railways will have a look in his collection with this model.

History 0f the DDA40X 

In 1969, Union Pacific was retiring the last of their gas turbine-electric locomotives. Union Pacific had ordered EMD DD35s and DD35As to replace the turbines, and the DDA40X was a further development. The first DDA40X, UP # 6900, was delivered in April 1969, in time to participate in the celebrations of the centennial anniversary of the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad driving the "Gold Spike Limited"; it arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the morning of May 10, 1969. Forty-six more were built between June 1969 and September 1971, numbered from 6901 to 6946.

The DDA40X is 98 ft (30 m) long. The frames were fabricated by an outside contractor, the John Mohr Company of Chicago, because they were too large for EMD's factory. The use of more than one prime mover in a single locomotive was not new; the E-series were popular dual-engine locomotives, and Baldwin had produced (but not sold) a locomotive with four diesel engines.

The "X" in the model number stood for experimental, as DDA40X Centennials were testbeds for technology that would go into future EMD products, however UP frequently used these locomotives to service heavy freights; each unit successfully ran some 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) before they were retired from revenue service in 1985. The modular electronic control systems later used in EMD Dash-2 models were first used on the DDA40X and the 4200 HP SD45X. All DDA40X units included a new load test circuit, whose dynamic braking resistors allowed units to load test without a track-side load test box.

The DDA40X were fitted with wide cabs like F45 and FP45 passenger locomotives, which was superficially similar to the Canadian comfort cab introduced by Canadian National in 1973, but lacked the structural reinforcements of future wide-nosed cabs.
Other experiments were conducted during the service life of these locomotives. A few of the units were fitted with Federal Signal Thunderbolt air raid sirens to warn track-side personnel when away from grade crossings, but the results were included. Another of the tests included modular electrical components, which was successful. This made for easier diagnosis of electrical problems. These modifications were used in all future locomotives built by EMD. Gearing was 59:18, allowing 80 mph on freight trains.
Despite their excellent performance and relatively good efficiency, these units were still very costly to maintain which ultimately prompted the Union Pacific to start retiring them in 1984; all were retired by 1986. Eleven DDA40X units are preserved by various museums, while another unit survives as a source of spare parts for other locomotives. UP 6936, the sole operating unit, is still owned by the Union Pacific and is used in excursion service

Please note that this kit is not a toy and can only be played with to a limited extent. Please keep the items away from small children under the age of 6 years . It involves small parts which might break off and be swallowed. We declare the model as a puzzle or decoration.

Item Description:

Material:  4mm wood
Dimensions approx. ca. in cm:  (L x B x H)  85 x 9 x 14,5
Weight approx: 1.5 kg
Content: 1 x lasered kit / assembly instructions

The kit is made of wood and has been lasered. This will cause the edges to look burnt and possibly leave traces of soot and smoke on the wood. These can be easily removed with fine sandpaper.
All components are laser cut so that there is a "beautiful" front and a marked, production-related "bad" back. Make sure that the good side always points to the visible side.
These soot and smoke marks as well as the fact that wood is a natural product, which is dimensionally influenced by basic physical laws such as temperature and humidity, there are certain limitations in the nature of the products, which must be consciously accepted.
We offer the most careful choice of material and the most modern production methods, nevertheless one has to accept with wood the peculiarities and unimpeachable characteristics, which are to be observed again and again in the practice - therefore these can not be claimed by the buyer as a material defect.