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Red Flag 6-class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Kim Chong-tae Electric Locomotive Works· from 1981· Class of North Korean electric locomotives
what is it?
The Red Flag 6-class (Korean: 붉은기6 Pulg'ŭn'gi-6) is a 4,240 kW (5,690 hp) two-section, permanently coupled electric locomotive built by the Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works and used by the Korean State Railway for heavy freight trains on mountainous lines.
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 45 years ago, in 1981.
- Weighs about as much as 29 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 32.6 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1981–1987
- number built
- 37
- 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′Bo′
- length
- 32.6 m
- weight
- 176 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088500, Wikipedia: Red Flag 6-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.