#3620· ML-4000
Krauss-Maffei ML 4000
🇺🇸 United States ·built by KraussMaffei· from 1961· German-built 3500hp diesel-hydraulic locomotives sold to USA and Brazil
.jpg)
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 9011 at enzen Aug 64 - Flickr - drewj1946: Drew Jacksich from San Jose, CA, The Republic of California· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Krauss-Maffei ML4000 C-C - EF Vitória a Minas (1968): Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The Krauss-Maffei ML 4000 is a diesel–hydraulic locomotive, built between 1961 and 1969 by German manufacturer Krauss-Maffei in Munich, Germany. It generated 3,540 horsepower (2,640 kW) from two Maybach V16 engines. 37 examples were built in total, for two North American railroads and one South American railroad.
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.
- 2.6 MW is about 31 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 26 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.4 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
- 1961–1969
- retired
- 1980
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 37
- kind
- Diesel–hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- KraussMaffei
- operators
- Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Estrada de Ferro Vitória a Minas
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- 2.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C′C′
- length
- 20.4 m
- weight
- 156 t
- nicknames
- (Damned) Krauts, Amerika-loks, Amilok, Ami
- Dutch name
- ML-4000
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q834412, Wikipedia: Krauss-Maffei ML 4000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.