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Lima LS-1000
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Lima Locomotive Works· from 1949· model of American 1000 hp diesel switcher
what is it?
The A-3080 (LS-1000) is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built between May 1949 and April 1950, by the Lima-Hamilton Corporation of Lima, Ohio, United States. The A-3080 is a 1,000 hp (750 kW) switcher, which became the standard for Lima's designs. By changing fuel rack settings, the A-3080 was upgraded to the A-3170, with 1,200 hp (890 kW) from the same turbocharged Hamilton T89SA four-stroke, eight cylinder inline diesel engine.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- 746 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1949–1950
- number built
- 38
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Lima Locomotive Works
- operators
- Wabash Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York Central Railroad, Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 14.3 m
- weight
- 114 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6548815, Wikipedia: Lima LS-1000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.