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While rival manufacturers were asked to produce switchers, EMD was the only firm allowed to produce road diesels - a situation that, in retrospect, gave GM a commanding lead in the diesel revolution after the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the end of NW2 production in 1949, over 1100 engines had been sold in the United States and Canada, and the hardy N-series switchers were ubiquitous from coast to coast. A popular, near-scale Lionel model ensured the engine was familiar to almost any boy who grew up in the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn interesting variation was the \"calf.\" This cabless version was designed to be run in tandem with a normal NW2 for heavy-duty switching and transfer service between railroad yards. 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With a longer hood the NW2 housed a 12-cylinder diesel, twice as large as the prime mover in the SW1. The \"N\" in NW2 stood for nine hundred horsepower, the power output of the first Electro-Motive Corporation N-series switchers with Winton motors. Power increased to 1000 hp with the 1939 debut of the NW2, the first N-series locomotive with EMC's new 567 diesel motor - the prime mover that would power nearly all of the most successful first-generation diesels. Within a few years, EMC and Winton Engine, which had been owned by GM since 1930, would become the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEMD cataloged the NW2 for a decade, except for a hiatus in production from 1942-1945, ordered by the War Production Board. While rival manufacturers were asked to produce switchers, EMD was the only firm allowed to produce road diesels - a situation that, in retrospect, gave GM a commanding lead in the diesel revolution after the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the end of NW2 production in 1949, over 1100 engines had been sold in the United States and Canada, and the hardy N-series switchers were ubiquitous from coast to coast. A popular, near-scale Lionel model ensured the engine was familiar to almost any boy who grew up in the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn interesting variation was the \"calf.\" This cabless version was designed to be run in tandem with a normal NW2 for heavy-duty switching and transfer service between railroad yards. 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