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SJ Tc
🇸🇪 Sweden ·built by Nydqvist och Holm AB· from 1969· class of 20 Swedish diesel-hydraulic locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SJ Tc 303 beim Schneeräumen in Skellefteå auf dem Drehteller: Seved Walther· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
SJ Tc is a diesel-hydraulic locomotive used in Sweden for line service and snowploughing. Twenty locomotives were built for Swedish State Railways (Swedish: Statens Järnvägar, SJ) in 1969-1971 by Nydquist & Holm for combined freight, line service and snowploughing service, alongside 10 of the larger Tb diesel-electric locomotives. SJ used the locomotives for freight and track work trains during the summer and for snow removal in the winter.
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 57 years ago, in 1969.
- 450 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.4 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
- 1969–1971
- in service from
- 1969
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- builders
- Nydqvist och Holm AB
- operators
- Infranord, Swedish National Rail Administration
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- 450 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4wDH
- length
- 12.4 m
- weight
- 33.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1254167, Wikipedia: SJ Tc (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.