#5026
Israel Railways JT 42CW
🇮🇱 Israel ·built by Stadler Rail Valencia· from 1996· class of Israeli diesel-electric locomotive
.jpg)
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Traincrossing823: יעקב· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 708-709-115: The original uploader was Golf Bravo at Hebrew Wikipedia .· CC BY 2.5
- 3. JT42CW with garbage train in Bnei Brak Yard: McKaby· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. NGT26 and JT42CW(2): McKaby· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. NGT26 and JT42CW: McKaby· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The JT 42CW is a class of six axle Co'Co' diesel electric freight locomotives manufactured by Alstom's Meinfesa plant in Valencia Spain in the late 1990s for use by Israel Railways (IR).
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 30 years ago, in 1996.
- 2.2 MW is about 26 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.1 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1996
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- builders
- Stadler Rail Valencia, Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Israel Railways
- top speed
- 110 km/h
- power
- 2.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 21.1 m
- weight
- 112 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q6087163, Wikipedia: Israel Railways JT 42CW (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.