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HŽ series 2062
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by General Motors Diesel· from 1972· class of Croatian diesel locomotives (ex JŽ 664 / EMD G26C)
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 2062 series locomotive (021): -- Orlovic ( talk ) 12:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)· Public domain
- 2. HZ diesel unit: Andrija ban 2· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The HŽ Series 2062 is a class of diesel-electric locomotives belonging to Croatian Railways (Croatian: hrvatske željeznice, HŽ). They are examples of the EMD G26 locomotive series. Prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia, when in use with JŽ these locos were classified as JŽ 664-0.
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 54 years ago, in 1972.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 53 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1972
- in service from
- 1973
- status
- in service
- number built
- 64
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- General Motors Diesel
- operators
- Yugoslav Railways, Croatian Railways
- top speed
- 124 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.9 m
- weight
- 103 t
- nicknames
- "Ličanka" , "James", ("Turner" 100 subseries, if double traction used)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q1058062, Wikipedia: HŽ series 2062 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.