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OSE class A.501
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Montreal Locomotive Works· from 1974· class of 12 Greek diesel-electric locomotives
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what is it?
OSE class A.501, also known as 500άρα (500ara, "Big 500"). or Καναδέζα (Kanadeza, "Canadian"), is a series of diesel-electric locomotives operated by TRAINOSE. This locomotive was built in 1974 at by MLW and was put into operation by OSE in 1975. Outwardly they resemble the class A.451 locomotive with the main difference that they are of higher power and have different appearance before rebuilding as they did not have an elevated head-on with steam heating boiler.
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 52 years ago, in 1974.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.7 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1974
- in service from
- 1974
- number built
- 12
- kind
- diesel locomotive
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Montreal Locomotive Works
- operators
- Hellenic Train, Hellenic Railways Organisation
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- power
- 2.7 MW
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q31284806, Wikipedia: OSE class A.501 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.