what is it?
SNCF CC 70000 was a class of two prototype high power diesel-electric locomotives numbered CC 70001 and 70002. They were built at the same time as a diesel-hydraulic version, BB 69000.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 3 MW is about 35 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22.7 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
- 1965–1966
- retired
- 1983
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Alstom, Chantiers de l'Atlantique, SEMT Pielstick
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C′C′
- length
- 22.7 m
- weight
- 117 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2931173, Wikipedia: SNCF Class CC 70000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.