D13E

what is it?

The D13E is a diesel locomotive model currently used on the Vietnam Railways network. There are two liveries of D13E locomotives, red and white; blue and white.

who runs it

base stats

• speed 100 km/htop speed
• power 1 MWpower output
• weight 72 tin working order
• built 25made in total

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 42 years ago, in 1984.
• 🚗1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏14.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built

1984–2002

in service from

1983

number built

25

kind

Diesel

traction

diesel

origin

🇮🇳 India

builders

Banaras Locomotive Works

operators

Vietnam Railways

top speed

100 km/h

power

1 MW

gauge

1,000 mm metre gauge

wheel arrangement

Co' Co'

length

14.5 m

weight

72 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.