#4169· ČSD Klasse T 448.0
ČSD Class T 448.0
🇨🇿 Czech Republic ·built by ČKD· from 1973· class of 620 Czechoslovakian diesel-electric locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Lokomotiva 740 618-4: Michal Maňas· CC BY 4.0
- 2. Vamberk5: Vít Javůrek· Public domain
- 3. Lokomotywa T448P-092: PaPaKo· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Class T 448.0 (factory designation 1435 Bó Bó 883) is a group of four-axle diesel–electric locomotives manufactured by ČKD Praha for shunting and freight service on secondary and industrial lines built for industrial use in Czechoslovakia and Poland and for the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). Following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, these were divided between the successor companies, the Czech Railways and the Slovak Republic Railways. They have also found their way to a considerable number of private railways in both countries, and ten have been sold to the Korean State Railway of North Korea.
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 53 years ago, in 1973.
- 883 kW is about 10 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.6 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
- 1973–1989
- number built
- 620
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- builders
- ČKD
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- 883 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 13.6 m
- weight
- 72 t
- Dutch name
- ČSD Klasse T 448.0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q337256, Wikipedia: ČSD Class T 448.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.