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TEP80
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Kolomna Locomotive Works· from 1988· class of 2 Soviet Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′ diesel-electric locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Музей ж-д транспорта - panoramio: MrStepanovka· CC BY 3.0
- 2. RailwaymuseumSPb-200: Vitaly V. Kuzmin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. DieselLocomotiveTEP80-0001: CeeGee· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. TE127-0001 and TEP80-0001 at exhibition (side view): Дмитрий Лившиц· CC BY 4.0
- 5. TEP80-0001 in Novosibirsk railway museum: Maxim Dmitriev· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Passenger Diesel locomotive 80-0012: Vitold Muratov· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. RailwaymuseumSPb-201: Vitaly V. Kuzmin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Saint Petersburg. Russian Railway Museum. Steam locomotive Yea-2201 and diesel locomotive TEP80-0002 P7212887 2200: Alexxx1979· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Tep80: Photocity· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Тепловоз ТЭП80 002 (10): George Shuklin· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
The TEP80 (ТЭП80) is a Soviet diesel locomotive produced in 1988–1989. Only two locomotives were built.
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 38 years ago, in 1988.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 9 minutes.
- 4.5 MW is about 53 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 30 African elephants (~6 t each).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1988–1989
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Kolomna Locomotive Works
- operators
- Soviet Railways
- top speed
- 271 km/h
- power
- 4.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (Bo′+Bo′)(Bo′+Bo′)
- weight
- 180 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1315730, Wikipedia: TEP80 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.