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GE Dash 8-40C
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 1987· 6-axle diesel electric locomotive
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what is it?
The GE C40-8 is a model of 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems between 1987 and 1992. It is part of the GE Dash 8 Series of freight locomotives, and its wheel arrangement is of a C-C type. This locomotive model is often referred to as a Dash 8-40C or simply "Dash 8".
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 39 years ago, in 1987.
- Weighs about as much as 30 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1987–1992
- status
- retired
- number built
- 607
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation, General Electric
- operators
- Various
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C [BB40-8M = B-B+B-B Brazil]
- length
- 21.3 m
- weight
- 178 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513274, Wikipedia: GE Dash 8-40C (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.