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Soviet locomotive class VL19
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Kolomna Locomotive Works· from 1932· class of Soviet electric locomotives
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Khashuri Locomotive: Zviad Avaliani· Attribution
- 2. Vl19-14: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
- 3. Electric locomotive VL19-01: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 4. VL19 Zlatoust: Роман Дергунов· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The VL19 (Cyrillic script: ВЛ19) was the first class of electric locomotives designed in the Soviet Union. Earlier classes had been designed in the United States and Italy. The VL19s were produced from 1932 to 1938 and became the main freight and passenger DC electric locomotives in the Soviet Union.
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 94 years ago, in 1932.
- 2 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1932–1938
- number built
- 145
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Kolomna Locomotive Works
- operators
- Soviet Union
- top speed
- 85 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- electric system
- 1.5 kV DC Overhead line, Some dual voltage:, 1.5 and 3 kV DC
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- weight
- 114 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1169776, Wikipedia: Soviet locomotive class VL19 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.