#3616· JNR DD14
JNR Class DD14
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kisha Seizo· from 1961· Japanese diesel snowplough locomotive
_Otaru_Museum_20090830.jpg)
_Otaru_Museum_20090830.jpg)
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JRE DD14 327 DD14 332: Mitsuki-2368· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. DD14 317: Alt_winmaerik· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. JNR DD14 1: 100yen· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. JNR DD14 312: 100yen· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. JNR DD14 323: 100yen 23:40, 26 July 2007 (UTC)· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. JR East DD14-334: Sui-setz· Public domain
- 7. TSHR DD14 331: Alec @ Taiwan· CC BY 2.0
- 8. DD14 323 (No 1 end) Otaru Museum 20090830: DAJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. DD14 323 (No 2 end) Otaru Museum 20090830: DAJF· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. JRE DD14-332 DT113G: Mitsuki-2368· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Class DD14 (DD14形) was a B'B' wheel arrangement diesel-hydraulic locomotive type operated in Japan as a self-propelled rotary snowplough unit from 1961 to 2015 by the national railway company Japanese National Railways (JNR), and later by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). West Japan Railway Company (JR West), and Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).
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 65 years ago, in 1961.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1961–1979
- retired
- 2015
- status
- retired
- number built
- 43
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kisha Seizo, Kawasaki Heavy Industries
- operators
- Japanese National Railways, East Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- Dutch name
- JNR DD14
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11421755, Wikipedia: JNR Class DD14 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.