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EMD FT36HCW-2
🇰🇷 South Korea ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 1986· model of Korean-built diesel locomotive used in South Korea
what is it?
The EMD FT36CW-2, classified as the Class 7000 locomotive under Korail, was a Korean semi-high-speed diesel–electric locomotive. It was built to make the Saemaul Class trains more streamlined before the 1988 Olympics. The locomotives were built between 1986 and 1987 and were all retired between 2011 and 2012 when they reached the end of their 25-year lifespans.
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 40 years ago, in 1986.
- 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.
- 2.8 MW is about 33 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 26 years (1986–2012).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1986–1987
- in service from
- 1986
- retired
- 2012
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem, Electro-Motive Diesel
- designer
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division
- operators
- Korea Railroad Corporation
- top speed
- 170 km/h
- power
- 2.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 21 m
- weight
- 118 t
- nicknames
- "봉고:(Bongo)"
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q11664044, Wikipedia: EMD FT36HCW-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.