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- 1. Bangladesh Railway Loco Class 6000: Zaki.zidan.5688· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Bangladesh Railway Class 6600 is a class of 1,676 mm gauge diesel-electric locomotives owned by Bangladesh Railway. There are 40 locomotives of this class, all designed and manufactured by American company Progress Rail's Electro-Motive Diesel subsidiary. Class 6600 locomotives are used on both freight and passenger trains.
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 7 years ago, in 2019.
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 2.4 MW is about 29 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
- 2019
- in service from
- 2019
- status
- in service
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Progress Rail Services
- operators
- Bangladesh Railway
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- 2.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q96373092, Wikipedia: Bangladesh Railway Class 6600 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.