Each of these GP-9 locomotives is painted black with a wide orange band and large white road number with red, white and black Milwaukee Road logo on the cab side. They wear the third paint scheme applied to them during their lives on the Milwaukee Road. An EMD GP-9 (also known as a 'Dash 9' for short) is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and August 1963. 3,436 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads.