Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think these were ever in the US. They were probably painted like the GN, as the one above is, but they don't look like anything that ran here.
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Definitely not a US locomotive, but it is a fine tribute to a railroad that was truly great and not just in name.
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These units are Scandinavian, with GM engines, built I believe by Nohab, an EMD licensee. Similar overseas licensee producers that borrowed EMD styling traits were Macosa in Spain, Comeng in Australia, Henschel in Germany etc......
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Hungary had same locomotive too. It is M61 class. Photographer gave us wrong description. American locos can not run in Europe due to clearance and weight. It is not former GN but painted in GN scheme.
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| Posted by on September 8, 2013 | |
Definitely not an EMD F unit, but interesting.
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| Posted by virogue on September 8, 2013 | |
Definitely Nohab, not EMD F's... these engines are double-ended, and are painted in US-inspired schemes.
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The locomotives were built by NOHAB in Sweden for the Danish State Railways as their class My. The design is based on the EMD F7 model, and is classified by EMD as model AA16 (two cabs, 16-567C engine). Following their retirement many units were sold to various Swedish private operators and reclassified TMY to match the Swedish classification system. The pictured locomotives are TMY 105 (left) and TMY 106 in "Great Northern" livery. Unit 105 is in everyday use, while the 106 suffered a main generator failiure in june and will unfortuneately be retired. Both units are owned by Kristinehamn- based operator Tågåkeriet i Bergslagen AB (TÅGAB). TÅGAB owns many EMD diesels; five class TMY locomotives, two larger class TMZ units (16-645E3 engine, based on the SD40) and four class T43 (12-567D1 engine). Additionally, the workshops in Kristinehamn rebuild and maintain many Swedish and Norwegian EMD powered locomotives.
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| Posted by mmi16 on September 8, 2013 | |
A 'tribute' locomotive - like the tribute bands that 'cover' the bands that were actually the stars in their day.
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The GN unit was painted like that for a movie, and they retained the paintjob afterwards.
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| Posted by trip66 on September 11, 2013 | |
That's a pretty shot. Good vantage point. I like the contrast of the train colors with the nearly monochromatic terrain.
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Great Northern Railway was the name of the railway used for the film "Dancer in the Dark", a Danish musical drama film based in US. It was filmed in the year 2000 in Sweden. Both NOHAB shown are owned and operated by TÅGAB (Tågåkeriet i Bergslagen AB) a Swedish railway company with headquarters in Kristinehamn. NOHAB AA16 is the name for the European license variation of the American standard railroad engines of the F-class of EMD, at that time of a subsidiary of the GM group. This diesel-electric locomotive was procured by a lot of rail companies in Western Europe and Hungary in variations with the wheel arrangements of Co'Co'. The type name occurred after the licensee Nydqvist och Holm AB / NOHAB in the Swedish Trollhättan. Museums, private owner and secondary rail companies as well as main railroads still operate the NOHAB, mainly in Scandinavian countries.
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