#3434· KSR 500 serie
KSR 500 series locomotives
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Bryansk· from 1958· Class of locomotives
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- 1. TGM3-elec: 哈局巡道工· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The 500 series locomotives are a group of diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulic locomotives bought either new or second-hand by the Korean State Railway from the Soviet Union and Russia. The series includes several types of locomotive, all numbered in the 내연5xx range. The exact assignment of running numbers is not known, nor is the total number of units imported - or even all the types included in this series.
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 68 years ago, in 1958.
- 736 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1958–1968
- number built
- —
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Bryansk
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 736 kW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 20 m
- weight
- 120 t
- Dutch name
- KSR 500 serie
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088490, Wikipedia: KSR 500 series locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.