The EMD Model 40 was a two-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by Electro-Motive Corporation, and its corporate successor, General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) between April 1940 and April 1943. Nicknamed "critters", eleven examples of this locomotive were built. Powered by twin General Motors Detroit Diesel 6-71 diesel engines, which produce a combined 300 horsepower. Original buyers included the Old Ben Coal Corporation, the Farmer's Union Co-op, the United States Army and the United States Navy.

An HO scale model of the Model 40 is currently produced by Athearn. It is Digital Command Control plug equipped.

Known locomotives

• s/n 1134 Museum of Industry, Stellarton, Nova Scotia
• s/n 1308 scrapped
• s/n 1309 Lake Superior Railroad Museum/Duluth, Minnesota
• s/n 1834 Cushing Stone Company, Amsterdam, New York
• s/n 1835 Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum/North Judson, Indiana
• s/n 2284 a northwest Indiana locomotive rebuilder
• s/n 2285 Walkersville Southern Railroad, Walkersville, Maryland
• s/n 2286 scrapped
• s/n 2287 Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California
• s/n 2288 York County Heritage Trust, York, Pennsylvania
• s/n 2289 scrapped

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