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EMD F125
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 2015· passenger diesel locomotive class
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Metrolink F125 905: Andrew· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. EMD F125 On Metrolink Holiday Special 2023: Fan Railer· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The EMD F125 "Spirit" is a four-axle passenger diesel locomotive manufactured by Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) for the North American market since 2015. It is powered by a Caterpillar C175-20 V20 diesel engine rated at 4,700 hp (3,500 kW). The locomotive is capable of traveling at a maximum in-service speed of 125 mph (201 km/h) pulling consists of up to 10 cars.
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 11 years ago, in 2015.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 3.4 MW is about 40 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21 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
- 2015–2021
- in service from
- 2016
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Metrolink
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- power
- 3.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 21 m
- weight
- 129 t
- nicknames
- Spirit
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323406, Wikipedia: EMD F125 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.