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SNCF Class 1D1 60051
🇫🇷 France ·built by Constructions électriques de France· from 1934· class of 1 French diesel locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. PLM 141 AMD1: Unknown author Unknown author· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
1D1 60051 was a class of one prototype diesel-electric locomotive built for the PLM in 1934 by CEF. The diesel locomotive was numbered as 141 AMD 1 when with the PLM, and was included in the inventory of the SNCF at its inception in 1938. It was numbered as 141 DA 1 in the 1950s, before the renumbering of 1962. It was equipped with a MAN diesel engine of 600 hp (450 kW), replaced in 1952 by a 750 hp (560 kW) engine.
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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- 447 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 29 years (1933–1962).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1934
- in service from
- 1933
- retired
- 1962
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Constructions électriques de France
- operators
- Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, Société nationale des chemins de fer français
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- 447 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 1′Do1′
- weight
- 94.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2813477, Wikipedia: SNCF Class 1D1 60051 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.