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Red Flag 5000-8/1 class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works· Class of North Korean electric locomotives
what is it?
The Red Flag 5000-8/1 (붉은기, Pulg'ŭn'gi) is a class of universal mainline electric locomotives built by the Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works for the Korean State Railway. In 1981, the Korean State Railway took delivery of seven Francorail-MTE CSE26-21 diesel locomotives from France, followed by five more in 1985. Due to oil shortages in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was decided to develop a new electric locomotive based on these diesels.
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
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 41
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- —
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'Bo'
- weight
- 120 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088495, Wikipedia: Red Flag 5000-8/1 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.