Weigh It Up · Vehicles
How heavy is Locomotive?
120 tweight
A modern electric locomotive weighs about 120 tonnes.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Locomotive.
- 10× the city bus (12 t)
- 20× the african elephant (6 t)
- 92.3× the family car (1.3 t)
How to picture 120 t
Start from something you can see right now. Locomotive is about 10× city bus. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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