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DeRoI-class locomotive (Mitsubishi)
Korea under Japanese rule ·built by Mitsubishi· from 1946· class of 3 electric locomotives built by Mitsubishi
what is it?
The Mitsubishi DeRoI-class (Japanese: デロイ) was a group of three boxcab-style electric locomotives with regenerative braking (type EL14AR) and the capability for multiple-unit control manufactured by Mitsubishi in 1946. They were very similar to the Toshiba-built DeRoI-class locomotives and the DeRoNi-class locomotives built by Hitachi. They were built for the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu), but the war ended before delivery took place.
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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- 2.3 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 23 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 19.1 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
- 1946
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- Korea under Japanese rule
- builders
- Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- designer
- Shinichi Matsuda, Saneyoshi Hirota
- operators
- Chōsen Government Railway, Korea Railroad Corporation, Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- 2.3 MW
- electric system
- 3,000 V DC
- wheel arrangement
- 1C-C1
- length
- 19.1 m
- weight
- 139 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q23023163, Wikipedia: DeRoI-class locomotive (Mitsubishi) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.