#3366
Krauss-Maffei ML 2200 C'C'
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by KraussMaffei· from 1957· German 6-axle, 2200-hp diesel-hydraulic locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. JZ 761-003 topcider 2016-06-11: Herbert Ortner· CC BY 4.0
- 2. JZ D66-001 Hannover Messe: selbst ( Flodur44 at de.wikipedia )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The diesel-hydraulic locomotive ML 2200 C'C' was a 6 axle variant of the DB Class V 200 series of locomotives, which were built for Yugoslav State Railways (JDŽ) by manufacturer Krauss-Maffei. The JDŽ bought three units, which it initially named D 66, later these were named JŽ series 761 A fourth engine was rebuilt as ML 3000 C'C', which was eventually purchased by the Deutsche Bundesbahn and numbered V 300 001 (after 1968 as 230 001).
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 69 years ago, in 1957.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 1.1 MW is about 13 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1957
- retired
- 1991
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- KraussMaffei
- operators
- Yugoslav Railways, Deutsche Bundesbahn
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 1.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C′C′
- length
- 20.3 m
- weight
- 96 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q747236, Wikipedia: Krauss-Maffei ML 2200 C'C' (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.