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GE Dash 8 Series
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 1983· series of locomotive models built by GE Transportation (1984–????)
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CSX 7689 GE C40-8W: terry cantrell· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. CSX7778 CORDELE 71521 (cropped): Niklaus Yager· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. GE Dash 8-32BWH: Leo W. Persick Jr.· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. GE Dash 8-40BW BNSF 566: Matthew J. Brown User:Morven· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Dash 8 Series is a line of diesel-electric freight locomotives built by GE Transportation. It replaced the Dash 7 Series in the mid-1980s, and was superseded by the Dash 9 Series for freight usage and the Genesis Series for passenger usage in the mid-1990s. All models of the Dash 8 Series are powered by a 16- or 12-cylinder, turbocharged, GE 7FDL 4-stroke diesel engine.
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 43 years ago, in 1983.
- 3.3 MW is about 39 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 20.1 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
- 1983–1994
- number built
- —
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation
- operators
- Amtrak
- top speed
- —
- power
- 3.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B (B32-8
- length
- 20.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513277, Wikipedia: GE Dash 8 Series (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.