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GA DE900 locomotives
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Stadler Rail Valencia· from 1994· Model of Spanish diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ENR DL GA900 1117: Wrightbus· CC BY 3.0
- 2. GA-DE900AC: Golf Bravo 16:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The GA DE900 is a family of 4 axle Bo'Bo' diesel electric locomotives manufactured in Spain, by Meinfesa. The class derive from the RENFE Class 311 type locomotive developed by MTM, Ateinsa and Babcock & Wilcox.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- 900 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1994–2000
- in service from
- 1994
- number built
- 75
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Stadler Rail Valencia, Alstom
- operators
- Israel Railways, Swiss Federal Railways
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 900 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- weight
- 74 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5512913, Wikipedia: GA DE900 locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.