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ADtranz DE-AC33C
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Adtranz· from 1996· High powered diesel-electric locomotive class
8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ADtranz DE-AC33C – Blue Tiger der OHE: Patrick Holzbach. Appaloosa at de.wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Blue tiger10.11.97: Gunnar1m· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. 20250823.Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz Hilbersdorf.-211: Bybbisch94· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. 20250823.Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz Hilbersdorf.-212: Bybbisch94· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. 20250823.Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz Hilbersdorf.-213: Bybbisch94· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 20250823.Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz Hilbersdorf.-214: Bybbisch94· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. 20250823.Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz Hilbersdorf.-215: Bybbisch94· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. 20250823.Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum, Chemnitz Hilbersdorf.-216: Bybbisch94· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Blue Tiger (manufacturer designation: DE-AC33C) is a type of high powered diesel-electric locomotive developed by ADtranz in association with General Electric.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 30 years ago, in 1996.
- 2.5 MW is about 29 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 23.7 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1996–2004
- number built
- 61
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Adtranz
- designer
- Adtranz / GE
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 23.7 m
- weight
- 120 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q290917, Wikipedia: ADtranz DE-AC33C (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.