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what is it?
The class WDS-5 is a diesel–electric locomotive used by Indian Railways for shunting and doing departmental works. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), Diesel (D), Shunting (S) engine. The WDS-6 is used all over India.
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 794 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 59 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1967
- in service from
- 1967
- status
- in service
- number built
- 21
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- American Locomotive Company
- designer
- ALCO
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 109 km/h
- power
- 794 kW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 16.5 m
- weight
- 126 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q96095981, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WDS-5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.