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GE U28CG
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 1966· model of American diesel locomotive
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- 1. ATSF 7908 (22354435102): Roger Puta· Public domain
what is it?
The GE U28CG was a dual-service diesel-electric locomotive produced in 1966 by GE Transportation Systems and derived from their freight-hauling U28C design. The sole customer was the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which ordered ten early that year for delivery in July and August. By that date, no North American locomotive builder cataloged a dedicated passenger-locomotive design; instead, all that was available were steam-generator equipped versions of freight road switcher locomotive designs.
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 60 years ago, in 1966.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.1 MW is about 25 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 30 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 14 years (1966–1980).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1966
- in service from
- 1966
- retired
- 1980
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation, General Electric
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- power
- 2.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C-C
- length
- 19.5 m
- weight
- 179 t
- nicknames
- The Forgotten U Boat
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q5513303, Wikipedia: GE U28CG (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.