#3556
GMD GMDH-3
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1960· model of 1 Canadian diesel locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Clinton DH1: submitter· Public domain
- 2. GMDH-3 at Southern Michigan RR Society: Joseph Zadeh· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The GMD GMDH-3 is an experimental diesel-hydraulic switching locomotive built in January 1960 by General Motors Diesel of Canada. Only one example was built, with GMD serial number A1813. The locomotive was essentially the GMDH-1 design but with only a single hood, a single engine and an end cab, mounted on a six-wheel chassis.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- General Motors Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 205 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 8.5 m
- weight
- 34 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513753, Wikipedia: GMD GMDH-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.