#3014
EMD DH1
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Clyde Engineering· from 1951· experimental switching locomotive
what is it?
The EMD DH1 was a class of experimental diesel-hydraulic switcher locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in May 1951. It was powered by a pair of small diesel engines suspended under the frame, driving through a pair of Allison torque converter transmissions to the inside wheels on each truck. These inside wheels were substantially smaller than the outside wheels on each truck.
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 75 years ago, in 1951.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1951
- number built
- 33
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Clyde Engineering
- top speed
- —
- power
- 254 kW
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323398, Wikipedia: EMD DH1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.