#3931· K62 klasse locomotief
K62-class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Luhanskteplovoz· from 1967· Class of North Korean diesel locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DPRK M62 Naeyeon 706: Clay Gilliland· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
K62 class is the Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Factory's designation for M62-type diesel locomotives built for the Korean State Railway. In North Korean service, they are designated Sinsŏng-class Korean: 신성, "Nova".
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 59 years ago, in 1967.
- 1.5 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1967–1973
- number built
- 64
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Luhanskteplovoz
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 17.6 m
- weight
- 117 t
- Dutch name
- K62 klasse locomotief
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q24088491, Wikipedia: K62-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.