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Lima LS-1200
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Lima Locomotive Works· from 1950· model of American 1200 hp diesel switchers
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ARMCO Steel E-110 (Lima LS-1200), 1951: Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D.· CC0
what is it?
The A-3170 (LS-1200) is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built between May 1950 and August 1951, by the Lima-Hamilton Corporation of Lima, Ohio, United States. Lima's original design was the A-3080, a 1,000 hp (750 kW) switcher, which became the standard for Lima's designs. A 660 hp (490 kW) switcher (proposed specification number A-3081) had also been designed at the request of American Rolling Mill Company, but none 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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 895 kW is about 11 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
- 1950–1951
- number built
- 69
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Lima Locomotive Works
- operators
- Wabash Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, Erie Railroad, New York Central Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 895 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 Q6548816, Wikipedia: Lima LS-1200 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.