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Spoornet Class 18E 18-120 (Series 1) |
| Description: |
Beginning in 2000 Spoornet embarked on a program to rebuild dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Series 11 locomotives to single cab Class 18E, Series 1 locomotives that were renumbered in the ranges 18-001 to 18-434 and 18-500 to 18-525. The rebuilding included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and was done by Transwerk (later Transnet Rail Engineering and then Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were stripped of all controls in order to have a toilet installed.
18-120 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 11 E2176 and commissioned in 2004.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 1. |
| Photo Date: |
10/6/2009 Upload Date: 12/7/2009 2:20:52 PM |
| Location: |
Onderstepoort, Pr |
| Author: |
Col André Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SAS 18-120(18E) |
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SAR Class 34-800 34-806 |
| Description: |
Between August 1978 and July 1980 the South African Railways placed fifty-eight Class 34-800 EMD GT26MC diesel-electric locomotives in service. Designed by Electro-Motive Diesel, they were built in two batches by General Motors South Africa in Port Elizabeth and numbered in the range from 34-801 to 34-858. Beginning in 2006 two Class 39-000 EMD GT26CU-3 locomotives, numbers 39-002 and 39-005, were rebuilt from wrecked Class 34-800 locomotives, numbers 34-838 and 34-829 respectively.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 34-800. |
| Photo Date: |
10/6/2009 Upload Date: 11/27/2009 5:47:19 PM |
| Location: |
Onderstepoort, Pr |
| Author: |
Col André Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SAS 34-806(GT26MC) |
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343 Comments: 0 |
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