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EMD GT38ACe
🇮🇩 Indonesia ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· from 2011· This is Diesel Electric Of Indonesia Locomotif
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. EMD GT38ACe, in action closely captured: Rayton89· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Het Dubbeltractie EMD GT38ACe te Garoentang: JohanSpoorlijn· CC0
- 3. Het dubbeltractie EMD GT38ACe te Garoentang Spoorbrug: JohanSpoorlijn· CC0
what is it?
The EMD GT38AC (known as CC205 in Indonesia) diesel–electric locomotives are made by Electro-Motive Diesel for export in Indonesia. There are 91 locomotives owned by the state-owned Indonesian Railway Company (PT Kereta Api Indonesia), all of them are for in Sumatra and replace the aging EMD G26. It's also one of two most advanced-technology locomotive in Indonesia (another one is GE CM20EMP).
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 15 years ago, in 2011.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 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
- 2011
- number built
- 115
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Kereta Api Indonesia
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co’Co’
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 108 t
- nicknames
- Sumatran Elephant
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12478107, Wikipedia: EMD GT38ACe (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.