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GE Dash 7 Series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· series of locomotive models built by GE Transportation (1976–1988)
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C30-7 Triagem Pta - Bauru SP: Ricardo Frontera· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Dash 7 Series is a family of diesel–electric freight locomotive models built by GE Transportation. Introduced in the mid-1970s, it replaced the Universal Series and was later superseded by the Dash 8 Series in the mid-1980s.
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
- 2.7 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 18.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
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- status
- in service
- number built
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- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation
- operators
- Various
- top speed
- —
- power
- 2.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B (B23-7
- length
- 18.6 m
- nicknames
- 'B-Boat', 'C-Boat', 'Wheelchair'(Brazil)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q15655148, Wikipedia: GE Dash 7 Series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.