Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nearly two years after the establishment of the Union of South Africa, on 1 January 1912, a carefully planned reclassification and renumbering scheme was brought into operation. Most of the locomotives of the Cape Government Railways (CGR), Natal Government Railways (NGR) and Central South African Railways (CSAR) were renumbered into the SAR ...
This list shows past and current rail transport locomotive classes used in South Africa. It includes locomotives from all original operators: Cape Government Railways (CGR) Cape Town Railway and Dock (CTR&D) Central South African Railways (CSAR) Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika (DSWA) Imperial Military Railways (IMR) Kowie Railway; Metropolitan ...
The original locomotive from which the Class 26 was rebuilt entered service in 1953 as the last of the Class 25NC 4-8-4 Northern type locomotives to be built. The Class 25 condensing and Class 25NC non-condensing locomotives were designed by the South African Railways (SAR) under the direction of L.C. Grubb, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the SAR from 1949 to 1954, and in conjunction with ...
By the late 1940s, the South African Railways (SAR) still had a comparatively large mileage of 45 pounds per yard (22 kilograms per metre) track. In South West Africa, where most of the locomotive fleet consisted of Classes 6, 7, GC and GCA, there were still hundreds of miles of 40 + 1 ⁄ 4 pounds per yard (20.0 kilograms per metre) track ...
The South African Railways Class 37-000 of 1981 is a mainline diesel-electric locomotive. Between May 1981 and 1982, the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 37-000 General Motors Electro-Motive Division type GT26M2C diesel-electric locomotives in service. After these locomotives were commissioned, the national carrier was not to ...
In 2014, Transnet Freight Rail ordered 233 GE ES40ACis from General Electric. [1] [2] [3]The first six were built in the United States by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania, in April and July 2015.
Airport name Country Coordinates Length (m) (ft) White Sands Space Harbor [116], B: United States: 10,668 35,000 Edwards Air Force Base C: United States: 8,988 29,488
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 11:05, 5 January 2020: 360 × 220 (73 KB): Slashme: Flip the diagram to put the government at the bottom. 09:46, 5 January 2020