MaK / Vossloh G1206

what is it?

The Vossloh G1206 is a B'B' diesel hydraulic freight locomotive built in Kiel and used by several European railway operators including a SNCF specific variant the BB 461000 series. The design was created in the mid-1990s by Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK) for German coal supplier RAG Aktiengesellschaft and is a follow-on to the MaK G1205 locomotive class built as the SNCB Class 77. Production continued under Vossloh ownership of the Kiel plant In 2007 a shunting specific variant, the G1206-2 was created and began production.

who runs it

Euro Cargo Rail

base stats

• speed 100 km/htop speed
• power 1.6 MWpower output
• built 168made in total

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 29 years ago, in 1997.
• 🚗1.6 MW is about 18 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 📏14.7 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

1997–2016

in service from

1997

number built

168

kind

Diesel-hydraulic

traction

diesel

origin

🇩🇪 Germany

builders

Maschinenbau Kiel, Vossloh

operators

Euro Cargo Rail

top speed

100 km/h

power

1.6 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

B′B′

length

14.7 m

Dutch name

MaK G 1206

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.