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- 1. Mootorvedur VME 1-116 (Ganz–MÁVAG M44) Haapsalus (cropped): Ivar Leidus· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Ganz DVM-4 is a diesel-electric shunting locomotive developed and manufactured by Ganz-MÁVAG of Hungary in the mid-1950s to meet a requirement issued by the Soviet Railways (SZhD). It entered series production for SZhD in 1958, and was also supplied to the North Korean State Railway.
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 68 years ago, in 1958.
- 471 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.9 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1958–1965
- number built
- 324
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- builders
- Ganz Works, MÁVAG
- operators
- Soviet Railways, Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 471 kW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 12.9 m
- weight
- 73.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4101961, Wikipedia: Ganz DVM-4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.