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GE C36-7
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 1978· model of 599 American diesel-electric locomotives
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7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C36M UP 588 1: User:KLWhitehead· CC BY 3.0
- 2. 1517 Estonian General Electric: LHOON from Mechelen, Belgium· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. China Railway ND5: N509FZ· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. GE C36-7 390 EFC: Fernando Santos Cunha Filho· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Variante Boa Vista-Guaianã 27-01-2013 10-21-40 (8421269572): Amauri Aparecido Zardeto from Itu, Brasil· CC BY 2.0
- 6. C36 vedur Tapal: Tibukonn· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Tartu jaam: Tibukonn· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The GE C36-7 is a six-axle diesel-electric locomotive built for freight service by GE Transportation Systems, GE do Brasil and A Goninan & Co. between 1978 and 1989. The model was developed as an updated version of the GE U36C and is powered by a 16-cylinder GE FDL-series prime mover.
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 48 years ago, in 1978.
- 2.8 MW is about 33 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 28 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1978–1989
- number built
- 599
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México, UGL Rail, Hamersley & Robe River railway, General Electric
- top speed
- —
- power
- 2.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
- weight
- 166 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24547, Wikipedia: GE C36-7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.