Statistics:
Motive Power: Diesel Electric
Dates of Manufacture: Nov. 1939 – Sept. 1942
Manufacturer: General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Number Produced: 91 A units, 26 B units
Wheel Arrangement: A1A-A1A
Dates of Manufacture: Nov. 1939 – Sept. 1942
Manufacturer: General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Number Produced: 91 A units, 26 B units
Wheel Arrangement: A1A-A1A
Notes:
The E6 locomotive was the sixth in EMD's E Unit series of enclosed body, covered wagon style passenger diesel electric locomotives. Like the other early E units the E6 engine is a "slant nose" model. Manufacture of the first E6 locomotives were completed before the first stainless steel clad E5.