#5742
CSR Qishuyan SDA2
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by CRRC Qishuyan Co., Ltd.· from 2014· class of 5 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 8Q66 - 8Q74 17-09-19: Kylesy34· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The CSR Qishuyan SDA2 is a diesel-electric locomotive manufactured by CRRC Qishuyan, in association with MTU Friedrichshafen for use in Australia.
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 12 years ago, in 2014.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2014
- in service from
- 2015
- status
- in service
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- CRRC Qishuyan Co., Ltd.
- operators
- Pacific National
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- weight
- 120 t
- nicknames
- Dragons
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16927097, Wikipedia: CSR Qishuyan SDA2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.