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EMD DE30AC and DM30AC
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1997· Long Island Rail Road locomotive
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. LIRR Cannonball train 2798: AEMoreira042281· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. LIRR DM30AC approaching Jamaica station September 2025: 4300streetcar· CC BY 4.0
- 3. DM30AC, New Hyde Park, Dec 27 2022 (cropped): D. Benjamin Miller· CC0
- 4. The Third Rail conductor shoe on DM30AC -514. (June 2024): Ryancasey93· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The EMD DE30AC and DM30AC are a class of 46 locomotives built between 1997–1999 by Electro-Motive Division in the Super Steel Plant in Schenectady, New York, for the Long Island Rail Road of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. Originally divided equally between the two types, the fleet currently consists of 24 DE30AC locomotives (diesel power only) and 20 DM30AC locomotives (diesel or third rail power).
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 29 years ago, in 1997.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22.9 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 27 years.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1997–1999
- in service from
- 1999
- status
- in service
- number built
- 46
- kind
- Diesel locomotive#Diesel-electric, Diesel-electric (DE30AC), Electro-…
- traction
- bi-mode
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Long Island Rail Road
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- (DM only)
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 22.9 m
- weight
- 135 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323397, Wikipedia: EMD DE30AC and DM30AC (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.