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GE CM20EMP
🇮🇩 Indonesia ·built by GE Transportation· from 2012· diesel-electric locomotive model manufactured for Kereta Api Indonesia by GE Transportation
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- 1. CC 206 13 24 + KA Sri Tanjung: RaFaDa20631· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ArgoSemeruRNB: Ghazy2007· CC0
what is it?
The GE CM20EMP (also known as CC206 in Indonesia) are diesel-electric locomotives owned and operated by Kereta Api Indonesia (Indonesian Railways Co.) and built by GE Transportation. The GE CM20EMPs are multipurpose locomotives, not only for hauling passenger trains (i.e. executive class, business class, or economy class), but also freight trains.
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 14 years ago, in 2012.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- 1.7 MW is about 20 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 3 years (2013–2016).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2012–2016
- in service from
- 2013
- retired
- 2016
- status
- retired
- number built
- 150
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- builders
- GE Transportation, Pindad
- operators
- Kereta Api Indonesia
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- 1.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-6-0
- length
- 15.9 m
- weight
- 90 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12478106, Wikipedia: GE CM20EMP (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.