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Kanghaenggun-class locomotive
🇰🇵 North Korea ·built by Luhanskteplovoz· class of North Korean electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Electric locomotive at Baku Station: Ex13· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Kanghaenggun: newslabmedia· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Kanghaenggun-class (Korean: 강행군, "Forced March") is a class of electric locomotives for freight trains operated by the Korean State Railway on mainlines, especially the important P'yŏngŭi Line. They were converted to 3,000 V DC electric operation by the Kim Chong-t'ae Electric Locomotive Works from Soviet-built K62-class diesel locomotives. A similar projects have been undertaken by the Azerbaijan Railways, who have converted one 2-section 2M62 locomotive to electric operation as well, using parts from a VL8 electric locomotive, and by a Polish train operating company Rail Polska, a subsidiary of Rail World, who used a bespoke electric equipment.
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
- 1.5 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.6 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 23
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- builders
- Luhanskteplovoz
- operators
- Korean State Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.5 MW
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 17.6 m
- weight
- 100 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q24088494, Wikipedia: Kanghaenggun-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.