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Kŭmsŏng-class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works· Class of North Korean diesel locomotive
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. RUSSIAN BUILT NORTH KOREAN RAILWAYS LOCOS AT THE PYONGYANG SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM DPR KOREA OCT 2012 (8161954016): calflier001· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Kŭmsŏng class (Korean: 금성, "Gold Star") locomotives are an unlicensed copy of the Soviet-made M62-type diesel locomotive, built by the Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works in P'yŏngyang, North Korea.
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
- 1.3 MW is about 15 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 21 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 18.1 m
- weight
- 123 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088492, Wikipedia: Kŭmsŏng-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.