Electro-Mobile Power Boxcar

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  A well known press photo of the time, EMD held an event in LaGrange showcasing the new Electro-Mobile Power line, including two M-16 rail mounted power cars, and an MH-8 highway trailer. All of the equipment was painted in EMD Demonstrator Blue, with a white lightening stripe. EMD Photo

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  1000 KW M-16, pier mounted, unit in peak skimming operation for the municipality of Hagerstown, Maryland. This unit was delivered in June, 1956. A drought on the East Coast lowered the water supply so far that the base load turbine operation was endangered. The unit was available to assist for base load.

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1958 Advert

The Diesel engine was first designed and built for mechnical drive. It was much later that Electro-Motive incorporated this prinicple in designing and building a prime mover specifically for electric power generation.

It was, in fact, 1932 that two experimental electric power generating sets were tested at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. These two cycle engines were a revelation in design - compact and lightweight.

Regined and improved over the years, this advanced prime mover has been produced in quantity by Electro-Motive - enought, in fact, for a total generating capacity of more than 24,000,000 kw. Above all, this engine has proved its dependability, operating for thousands of hour under every conceivable conditions with only the most routine type of servicing.

Many utilities are already employing Mobile Power for peaking and reserve appliacttions as well as emergency and maintenance work.