#3432· JNR ED60
JNR Class ED60
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries· from 1958· class of Japanese electric locomotives
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JNR ed60 7fc sakaisi: spaceaero2· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. ED60 1 at Ome Railway Park 20260517 01: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 3. ED60 1 at Ome Railway Park 20260517 02: Suikotei· CC BY 4.0
- 4. ED60 1 Nagano general rolling stock center: 快速踊り子· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. ED606+ED60 HanwaFreightLine Uriwari 19850319: Olegushka· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Class ED60 (ED60形) was a DC electric locomotive operated by Japanese National Railways (JNR) between 1958 and 1986. It was the first "second-generation" DC electric locomotive type featuring increased-power traction motors. Despite its diminutive size, the Bo-Bo wheel arrangement ED60 design offered performance comparable with the much larger Class EF15 1Co+Co1 design weighing almost twice as much.
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 68 years ago, in 1958.
- 1.6 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 27 years (1958–1985).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1958–1960
- in service from
- 1958
- retired
- 1985
- status
- retired
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kisha Seizo, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Electric, Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing, Toyo Electric, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- operators
- Japanese National Railways
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- electric system
- 1,500 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 13 m
- weight
- 56 t
- Dutch name
- JNR ED60
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q747021, Wikipedia: JNR Class ED60 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.