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Owner:
South African Railways
Model:
GE UM6B
Built As:
Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:
GE 38605/1973
Order No:
Frame Number:
Built:
Notes:
SAR Class 91-000
Other locos with this serial:
SAS 91-003(UM6B)
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Title:
SAR Class 91-000 91-003
Description:
Between September and December 1973 the South African Railways placed twenty Class 91-000 GE UM6B diesel-electric locomotives in service on its two feet narrow gauge lines, numbered in the range from 91-001 to 91-020. The GE UM6B was designed and built by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania and is the largest two foot gauge diesel-electric locomotive in the world. When they became redundant, several were sold and one, no. 91-010, was equipped wih Bigfoot Cape Gauge bogies from a Class 36-000 in order to be employed as shunter at Swartkops Loco Depot in Port Elizabeth.
See also the Wikipedia article on the
South African Class 91-000.
Photo Date:
10/17/2009
Upload Date:
11/28/2009 5:06:39 PM
Location:
Humewood, Port Elizabeth, EC, Po
Author:
Col André Kritzinger
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
SAS 91-003(UM6B)
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