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CarGoTram
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik· Tram used to tranport cargo
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CarGoTram Dresden: kaffeeeinstein from Berlin, Germany· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. 20240304.CarGoTram.-011: Bybbisch94· CC BY 4.0
- 3. 20240304.CarGoTram.-012: Bybbisch94· CC BY 4.0
- 4. 20240304.CarGoTram.-013: Bybbisch94· CC BY 4.0
- 5. 20240304.CarGoTram.-014: Bybbisch94· CC BY 4.0
- 6. 20240304.CarGoTram.-015: Bybbisch94· CC BY 4.0
- 7. CarGoTram Dresden (3751529541): kaffeeeinstein from Berlin, Germany· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 8. CarGoTram Dresden (3751529691): kaffeeeinstein from Berlin, Germany· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 9. CarGoTram Dresden (cropped): kaffeeeinstein from Berlin, Germany· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 10. CarGoTram Dresden 2: kaffeeeinstein from Berlin, Germany· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The CarGoTram was a freight tram in Dresden, Germany that operated between 2001 and 2020. It supplied Volkswagen's "Transparent Factory" with parts for car assembly.
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
- 900 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 59.4 m long: about 13 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 2
- kind
- tram / light rail
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Schalker Eisenhütte Maschinenfabrik
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 900 kW
- gauge
- 1,450 mm broad gauge
- formation
- 5 EMU + 7 middle carriages
- length
- 59.4 m
- weight
- 90 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q571882, Wikipedia: CarGoTram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.