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Santa Fe SD26
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Electro-Motive Diesel· model of American diesel locomotive rebuilt from EMD SD24 locomotives
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what is it?
The Santa Fe SD26 were EMD SD24 diesel locomotives rebuilt by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between January 1973 and January 1978. In an effort to spare the cost of purchasing new motive power, the Santa Fe elected to expand on the success of its CF7 and other capital rebuild programs and extend the life of its fleet of 80 aging SD24s by rebuilding them at its San Bernardino, California Shops. The rebuilt locomotives saw service throughout much of the Santa Fe system.
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
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2 MW is about 23 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 25 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.3 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
- —
- retired
- 2012
- status
- retired
- number built
- 80
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Pan Am Railways
- top speed
- 143 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
- length
- 18.3 m
- weight
- 149 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16984440, Wikipedia: Santa Fe SD26 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.