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Renfe Class 321
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Euskalduna· from 1965· class of Spanish diesel locomotives
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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 07 194 Bf Moncada Bifurcación, 321 046: Falk2· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. RENFE 321.070 (9375940087): Nelso Silva· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. RENFE 321-080 tren de la fresa: Juan Enrique Gilardi· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. Tren de la fresa - Aranjuez-Madrid - panoramio: Ivan Gonzalez· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Tren de la fresa+Civia en Aranjuez: Juan Enrique Gilardi· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. Tren de la fresa-Aranjuez 2011: Juan Enrique Gilardi· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Renfe Class 321 (formerly 2100 series) is a class of diesel-electric locomotives operated by Renfe in Spain, designed by Alco and built by them and by Euskalduna under licence.
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 61 years ago, in 1965.
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.6 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
- 1965–1971
- number built
- 80
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Euskalduna, American Locomotive Company
- designer
- American Locomotive Company
- operators
- Renfe Operadora, Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias, Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,668 mm Iberian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
- length
- 18.6 m
- weight
- 111 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q932466, Wikipedia: Renfe Class 321 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.