#3660
CIÉ 141 Class
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1962· class of American-built 960-hp double-ended diesel-electric road-switcher locomotives
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- 1. B181 colbert: Dawgz at English Wikipedia· Public domain
what is it?
The CIE 141 Class locomotives were built in 1962 by General Motors Electro Motive Division (EMD) in the United States. Numbered B141 to B177, they were an updated version of the 121 Class locomotives, mechanically very similar but with cabs at each end. They are EMD model JL8 (J = Double Ended Cabs, L = Lightweight Frame, 8= 8-cylinder 567 engine) and although originally fitted with an EMD 8-567CR engine of 960 horsepower (720 kW), all were later fitted with 645 type "power packs" (piston & liner assemblies) for parts standardisation.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 716 kW is about 8 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.4 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 49 years (1962–2011).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1962
- in service from
- 1962
- retired
- 2011
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 37
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Motors, Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Córas Iompair Éireann, Iarnród Éireann—Irish Rail
- top speed
- 123 km/h
- power
- 716 kW
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 13.4 m
- weight
- 67 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5011645, Wikipedia: CIÉ 141 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.