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- 1. GE U34CH at Hillsdale NJ: John Eric Durant· Attribution
what is it?
The U34CH is a 3,600 hp (2,700 kW) passenger diesel locomotive built by General Electric between 1970 and 1973.
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
- Top speed is 1.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 14 minutes.
- 2.5 MW is about 30 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- —
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 33
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation, General Electric
- top speed
- 166 km/h
- power
- 2.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- nicknames
- Bluebirds
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513312, Wikipedia: GE U34CH (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.