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NRE 2GS14B
🇺🇸 United States ·built by National Railway Equipment Company· from 2005· American diesel locomotive
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- 1. Carrollton July 2019 31 (Dallas, Garland and Northeastern NRE 2GS14B No. 140): Michael Barera· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The NRE 2GS14B is a low-emissions diesel switcher locomotive built by National Railway Equipment. It is powered by two Cummins QSK19C I6 engines with each one developing 700 horsepower (522 kW) and creating a total power output of 1,400 horsepower (1,040 kW). At least 7 2GS14B genset locomotives have been produced to date, with the majority of these units being manufactured at NREC's Mount Vernon shops in Southern Illinois.
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 21 years ago, in 2005.
- 1 MW is about 12 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
- 2005
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- National Railway Equipment Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6955126, Wikipedia: NRE 2GS14B (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.