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AES Railcar
🇨🇱 Chile ·built by General Electric· from 1976· class of 10 Chilean 2-car electric multiple units
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. El AES (8567417946): Sebastián Betancourt· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The AES (Automotor Eléctrico Suburbano) is an electric passenger railcar that has been in use in Chile since 1977, originally with Ferrocarril del Norte, and later for MERVAL, the Valparaíso region metro system.
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 50 years ago, in 1976.
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1976–1977
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇱 Chile
- builders
- General Electric Company plc, Materfer
- operators
- Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado
- top speed
- 130 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B-B+2-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q19871644, Wikipedia: AES Railcar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.