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Renfe Class 350
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by American Car and Foundry Company· from 1949· Spanish diesel locomotive class
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Renfe 350 003 librea TalgoII b: Bonaventura Leris· CC BY 2.0
- 2. »Virgen de Aranzazu«: Falk2· CC BY 3.0
- 3. Renfe Class 350 and Talgo III coaches at the Catalan Railway Museum, 01.08.2015, Perspective 1: Liberaler Humanist· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Renfe Class 350 and Talgo III coaches at the Catalan Railway Museum, 01.08.2015, Perspective 2: Liberaler Humanist· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Renfe Class 350 is a series of four single-cabin diesel locomotives that were delivered to Spain in 1950 for use with Talgo II coaches, being built in the United States by the American Car & Foundry to a distinctly American external style.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Weighs about as much as 10 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 3 years (1949–1952).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1949
- in service from
- 1949
- retired
- 1952
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- American Car and Foundry Company
- operators
- Renfe Operadora
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- weight
- 60 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q939665, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 350 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.