#4116
China Railways ND2
🇨🇳 China ·built by Electroputere· from 1972· Romanian diesel-electric locomotive used in China
.jpg)
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. China Railways ND2 0221: 慕尼黑啤酒· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. ND2 at Nanjing (SIK 03-060673-Print): Bärtschi, Hans-Peter· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
ND2 is the name for a Romanian diesel-electric locomotive, produced by Electroputere, exported to and employed in China by China Railway. It was made for the purpose of heavy transport.
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 54 years ago, in 1972.
- 1.5 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.9 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
- 1972–1987
- number built
- 284
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- Electroputere
- operators
- China State Railway Group
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 16.9 m
- weight
- 118 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5099875, Wikipedia: China Railways ND2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.