#3577
SNCF Class BB 66600
🇫🇷 France ·built by Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d’Homécourt· from 1960· class of French diesel locomotives (rebuilt from BB66000)
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. La BB 66616 VFLI: Pierre Monnier· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The SNCF Class BB 66600 is a small class of centre cab diesel locomotives rebuilt from the earlier Class BB 66000 by fitting a slightly more powerful engine. The locomotives were 14.898 m (48.88 ft) long and weighed 71 t (70 long tons; 78 short tons). Powered by an SEMT 12PA4 diesel engine developing 1,100 kW (1,500 hp), they had a maximum speed of 120 km/h (75 mph).
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 37 years (1960–1997).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960–1962
- in service from
- 1960
- retired
- 1997
- status
- retired
- number built
- 11
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d’Homécourt
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 14.9 m
- weight
- 71 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2876847, Wikipedia: SNCF Class BB 66600 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.