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EMD celebrates 100 years

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AMERICAN diesel pioneer EMD, which today means Electro-Motive Diesel and since 2010 has been part of Caterpillar-owned Progress Rail, celebrated its centenary in 2022. EMD began life as Electro Motive Engineering Corporation (EMC) in 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio initially using engines built by Winton Corporation and producing a series of diesel-powered multiple units and railcars, all built by subcontractors, including the first streamlined diesel passenger multiple units such as the three-car 110mph streamlined City of Salina for Union Pacific which used it between Kansas City and Salina, Kansas.

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