what is it?
Class E el-8 (Cyrillic script: Ээл8) was a Soviet diesel-electric locomotive built by Krupp in 1933 with engines by Sulzer and electrical equipment by Secheron.
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 93 years ago, in 1933.
- 895 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1933
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Friedrich Krupp AG, Lokomotiv- und Waggonbaufabrik Krupp
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 895 kW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-Eo-1
- weight
- 135 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4533444, Wikipedia: Soviet locomotive class E el-8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.