EMD E6A Atlantic Coast Line

The EMD E6 was a 2,000-horsepower, A1A-A1A, streamlined passenger locomotive manufactured by Electro-Motive Corporation, and its corporate successor, General Motors Electro-Motive Division, of La Grange, Illinois. The cab version, E6A, with its distinctive “slant nose” was manufactured from November 1939 to September 1942; 91 were produced. The 2,000-horsepower was achieved by putting two 1,000-horsepower, 12-cylinder, model 567 engines in the engine compartment. Each engine drove its own electrical generator to power the traction motors. The E6 was the seventh model in a long line of passenger diesels of similar design known as EMD E-units.