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what is it?
The TU8G (ТУ8Г) is a Soviet, later Russian diesel locomotive for track gauge 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).
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 38 years ago, in 1988.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1988
- number built
- —
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Kambarka Engineering Works
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 134 kW
- gauge
- 750 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 9 m
- weight
- 16 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4449086, Wikipedia: TU8G (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.