The EMD Model 40 was a diesel-electric industrial locomotive built by Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC), and its corporate successor, General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) between August 1940 and April 1943. Eleven of these two-axle locomotives were built. Powered by twin General Motors Detroit Diesel 6-71 diesel engines, which produce a combined 300 horsepower (224 kW), its drivetrain is unusual because the two diesel engines are used to drive the electric DC generator from both sides, one with clockwise rotation and the other with counter-clockwise rotation.
The tenth of these diesels, serial number 2288 and built in September 1942, was a Phase 2 version with a thicker frame than was found on the first three Model 40s, was purchased by United States Navy (as USNX 56-00323) for service at the Navy Torpedo Station in Goat Island, Rhode Island. Later renumbered USNX 4, this locomotive moved across the country to work at Naval Air Station San Diego, in southern California – about as far from Rhode Island as it could get! It was eventually sold to Douglas Aircraft (later McDonnell Douglas Aircraft) for use in their Industrial Reserve Plant in Torrance, roughly 100 miles from San Diego. The locomotive may have been unnumbered, although in this photo there is clearly a "9-71" marking in at least two places on this locomotive. Perhaps that was the number, or perhaps that was a servicing date. By 1988 it was donated to the Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, where it is on display. At some point prior to 1983, this Model 40 received stepwells in each of its four corners. (Torrance, California – November 28, 1983) Brian Leppert photograph, Craig Walker collection
From a hint of "Bee" (NKP 765), colorful "Bees" (KCS), "Bees" w/ "attitude", to "Bees" that "sting" your eyes, in their own way they have "Bee" on display! Equipment that "Buzzes" with Yellow & Black colors! ("Bees" can still "Bee" entering this "hive"!)
