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- 1. TRA S405 at Miaoli Railway Museum 20100413: Hayato Chiou ( QF2200DA )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The EMD GA18 was an export locomotive built by GM-EMD in 1969. The GA18 was a derivative of the EMD G18 and was designed as an extremely light locomotive with low axle loading which used freight car trucks driven by cardan shafts and two traction motors attached to the underframe. It was the successor model of the EMD GA8.
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 57 years ago, in 1969.
- 746 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1969
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 7
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- 72 km/h
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B
- length
- 11.6 m
- weight
- 49 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19757677, Wikipedia: EMD GA18 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.