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Indian locomotive class WDG-6G
🇮🇳 India ·built by GE Transportation· from 2019· Indian Railway locomotive class
what is it?
The Indian locomotive class WDG-6G (GE ES57ACi) is a class of diesel–electric locomotive used by the Indian Railways for freight duty. The locomotive is a higher power variant of the WDG-4G locomotive which was also designed by General Electric. The design platform is based on the GE Evolution Series and features a 4-stroke 16-cylinder fully turbocharged engine which delivers around 6,000 hp (4,500 kW), making it the most powerful diesel locomotive of IR (the second being its WDG-5 predecessor).
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 7 years ago, in 2019.
- 4.5 MW is about 53 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2019
- status
- in service
- number built
- 223
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- GE Transportation, Diesel Locomotive Factory, Marhowra
- designer
- GE Transportation India, Bengaluru
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 4.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- weight
- 138 t
- nicknames
- ANGAD
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q96382100, Wikipedia: Indian locomotive class WDG-6G (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.