#3959
EMD G18
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Stadler Rail Valencia· from 1968· EMD export diesel locomotive with 8-cylinder 645 engine
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ferronor G18U 72 Llanta: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The EMD G18 is an export locomotive introduced by GM-EMD in the late 1960s. The standard EMD suffixes applied after the G18 designation to indicate if the customer purchased locomotives with specific traction motors to fit narrow gauge (U) or broad gauge (W) rails. An L indicates a locomotive built with a lightweight frame, and 6 indicates A1A-A1A trucks.
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 58 years ago, in 1968.
- 746 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.6 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
- 1968–1978
- status
- retired
- number built
- 59
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Stadler Rail Valencia, Electro-Motive Diesel
- top speed
- —
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,000 mm metre gauge
- wheel arrangement
- A1A-A1A or B-B
- length
- 11.6 m
- weight
- 56.2 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q12472994, Wikipedia: EMD G18 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.