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SBB Em 3/3
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1959· Swiss diesel shunting locomotive
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Em 3-3 18816 Visp 260311: NAC· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 10.02.91 Schaffhausen SBB Em 3-3 18830 (12685305864): Phil Richards from London, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. SBB Em 3-3 (18814 A W): Joachim Lutz· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. SBB Em 3-3 (18814 C W): Joachim Lutz· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. 20190908E087 Em830830: Markus Giger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 20190908E107 Em98855 830830-6: Markus Giger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. 20190908E108 830830: Markus Giger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. 20190908E129 Em98855 830816-5: Markus Giger· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. 6 OC Ee 2-2 1 Orbe 210417: NAC· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. Travys OC Em33 816: Evan Cherpillod· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SBB Em 3/3 is a diesel shunting locomotive of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). They were built between 1959 and 1963, with a total of 42 units being manufactured by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works. They were designed to perform shunting duties for the SBB and were assigned running numbers 18801 to 18841 and SZU 11 Leu.
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 440 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1959–1963
- retired
- 2025
- status
- retired
- number built
- 41
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works
- operators
- Swiss Federal Railways
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- 440 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0DE
- length
- 10 m
- weight
- 49 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2205188, Wikipedia: SBB Em 3/3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.