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Vietnam Railways 141 Class
🇻🇳 Vietnam ·built by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques· from 1947· Locomotive in use in Vietnam
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Đầu máy xe lửa: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The 141-Class Locomotive (Vietnamese: Đầu máy lớp 141 Đường sắt Việt Nam) is a powerful metre gauge steam locomotive in use on Vietnamese Railways. Mechanically they are very similar to Vietnamese 231-500 Class locomotives.
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 79 years ago, in 1947.
- 820 kW is about 10 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1947–1974
- retired
- 1995
- status
- retired
- number built
- 112
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam
- builders
- Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd., Gia Lam Train Company
- operators
- Vietnam Railways, rail transport in Cambodia
- top speed
- 67 km/h
- power
- 820 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
- length
- 11.5 m
- weight
- 50 t
- nicknames
- Tự Lực
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q30634039, Wikipedia: Vietnam Railways 141 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.