My personal favorite diesel-electric locomotive is the Electro Motive Division SD70ACE.
It looks like this:
This locomotive has a 4,300 horsepower V12 diesel engine block. It generates 157,000 pound feet of linear torque (tractive effort)!
It looks like this:
This locomotive has a 4,300 horsepower V12 diesel engine block. It generates 157,000 pound feet of linear torque (tractive effort)!