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EMD DDM45
🇧🇷 Brazil ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1970· meter-gauge diesel–electric locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DDM45 861 EFVM Vinicius Secchin: Vinícius Secchin de Melo· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The EMD DDM45 is a meter-gauge diesel–electric locomotive built by EMD. The DD in the name means that it has eight axles in two trucks, giving it a D-D wheel arrangement, while the M stands for the meter-gauge track it was to operate on, and the 45 represents the EMD SD45 that the engine was derived from. They were built for service on the Estrada de Ferro Vitória a Minas (EFVM) in Brazil. In the early 1970s, the EFVM needed not only to expand its locomotive roster, but to use the most powerful single-engined locomotives available, and the SD45 represented the highest-rated model that EMD had to offer at the time.
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 56 years ago, in 1970.
- 2.7 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 27 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22.4 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1970–1976
- number built
- 83
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Vale
- top speed
- 85 km/h
- power
- 2.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Do′Do′
- length
- 22.4 m
- weight
- 162 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2067289, Wikipedia: EMD DDM45 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.