what is it?
The McKeen Railmotor was a 6-cylinder self-propelled railcar or railmotor. When McKeen Company of Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A., first unveiled the car in 1905, the McKeen was among the first engines with a distillate-fueled motor.
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
- 16.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 152
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- diesel
- builders
- McKeen Company of Omaha
- designer
- McKeen Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- 75 kW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- length
- 16.8 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q276967, Wikipedia: McKeen railmotor (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.