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Soviet locomotive class E el
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Friedrich Krupp AG· from 1931· class of 46 Soviet diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Eel-14: Дмитрий Закутный· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Class E el (Cyrillic script: Ээл) was a Soviet diesel-electric locomotive class built between 1931 and 1941. There were three sub-classes but all were very similar. E el-5 was a prototype built in Germany in 1931.
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 95 years ago, in 1931.
- 895 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1931–1941
- number built
- 46
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Friedrich Krupp AG, Kolomna Locomotive Works, Hohenzollern Locomotive Works
- top speed
- 55 km/h
- power
- 895 kW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-Eo-1
- weight
- 134 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4533443, Wikipedia: Soviet locomotive class E el (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.