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EMD F69PHAC
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 1989· Experimental diesel locomotive
what is it?
The EMD F69PHAC was an experimental locomotive built in 1989 in a joint venture between EMD and Siemens. It was designed to test AC locomotive technology. Only two examples of this locomotive were made.
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 37 years ago, in 1989.
- Top speed is 1.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1989
- retired
- 1999
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- United States Department of Transportation
- top speed
- 177 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 119 t
- nicknames
- Winnebago, Zephyr
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5323409, Wikipedia: EMD F69PHAC (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.