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HŽ series 2041

🇸🇮 Slovenia ·built by Đuro Đaković· locomotive class

HŽ series 2041, photo 1 of 1
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what is it?

Series 2041 is a diesel-electric locomotive class on Croatian Railways (Croatian: hrvatske željeznice, HŽ). These locomotives are built for hauling lighter freight trains, lighter passenger trains and also for heavy shunting.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 80 km/htop speed
  • power 431 kWpower output
  • weight 67 tin working order
  • built 33made in total

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

  • 431 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 14.7 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
—
number built
33
kind
Diesel-electric
traction
diesel
origin
🇸🇮 Slovenia
builders
Đuro Đaković, Brissonneau et Lotz
operators
Croatian Railways, Slovenske železnice
top speed
80 km/h
power
431 kW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
Bo′Bo′
length
14.7 m
weight
67 t
nicknames
"Đuran"

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q1058047, Wikipedia: HŽ series 2041 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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