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GE Dash 8-40CM
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 1990· 6-axle diesel locomotive
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what is it?
The GE C40-8M was a 6-axle diesel locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems from 1990 to 1994.
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 36 years ago, in 1990.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1990–1994
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 84
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation
- operators
- see table
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513272, Wikipedia: GE Dash 8-40CM (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.