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Bombardier ALP-46
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 2001· German-built US electric locomotive class
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. NEC train 3967 passing through Rahway station, June 2007: Adam E. Moreira· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. ALP-46 Convent Station: Fan Railer· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. ALP-46A 4629 at Convent Station: Fan Railer ( talk )· Public domain
- 4. ALP-46A 4636 Convent: Fan Railer· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. ALP-46 with NJ Transit Midtown Direct Service entering South Orange, NJ: Kcpwiki· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. NJ Transit train with an ALP-46 leaving of South Orange: Kcpwiki· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. New Jersey Transit Bombardier ALP-46 number 4664 at Trenton Transit Center: Awesomerailfanning· CC0
what is it?
The Bombardier ALP-46 is an electric locomotive built in Germany by Bombardier between 2001 and 2002 (and 2009–2011 for the ALP-46A) for use in the United States. It is derived from the German Class 101. New Jersey Transit (NJT) is the only railroad to operate this locomotive model, which is used across the electrified NJT system, specifically on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast, Morris & Essex, and Montclair-Boonton lines.
who runs it
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 25 years ago, in 2001.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 5.6 MW is about 66 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 2001–2011
- number built
- 65
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Adtranz
- operators
- New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, New Jersey Transit
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- power
- 5.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 12 kvolt, V 25 Hz AC Catenary, 12.5 kvolt, V 60 Hz AC Catenary, 25 kvolt, V 60 Hz AC Catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- length
- 19.5 m
- weight
- 90 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q432718, Wikipedia: Bombardier ALP-46 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.