Freight Australia XR class information

The XR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Freight Australia and Pacific National at South Dynon Locomotive Depot. Between 2002 and 2004...

and 2009. Built on the EMD GT26 platform, the class was an evolution of the Freight Australia XR class. They have been hired to a variety of operators...

Freight Australia was an Australian railway company that purchased the V/Line Freight business from the Government of Victoria in 1999. Initially known...

59, V/Line G class (original), Pacific National XRB class, Freight Australia XR class, VL class (Australia), Commonwealth Railways CL class (rebuilt versions)...

its South Dynon Locomotive Depot. They are mechanically similar to the XR class, but are B units without driving cabs. The EMD 16-645E3C engines were sourced...

Australia. 40 class 41 class 42 class 421 class 422 class 43 class 44 class 442 class 45 class 47 class 48 class 49 class 79 class 80 class 81 class 82...

Authority (MTA), the Public Transport Corporation (PTC), V/Line, Freight Victoria/Freight Australia (FA), and Pacific National (PN). Many private organisations...

freight and passenger traffic. Rail companies using the G26 locomotives in the past or present include Australian Railroad Group, Freight Australia,...

as further freight facility upgrades are under planning with completion due in approximately 2024. In 2005-2006 three XR and three XRB class locomotives...

Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses. In February 2002, National Rail's freight operations and rollingstock, jointly...

A number of the T class have been preserved. Those remaining with V/Line Freight were included in the sale to Freight Australia and in 2000, some stored...

the Gippsland line. They were the only class of main line electric locomotive operated in Victoria. Australia was a relatively early adopter of electric...

and the Moon, featuring Wernher von Braun, where von Braun demonstrated his XR-1 craft; health effects of space were demonstrated by former Luftwaffe fighter...

locomotive ever built in Australia and the largest non-articulated steam locomotive to run on Australian railways. By 1923, the A2 class 4-6-0 locomotives,...

South Australian Railways E class was a class of 2-4-0 steam locomotives acquired to work passenger and goods train services on the South Australian Railways...

Nexas is a class of electric multiple units manufactured by Siemens Transportation Systems for the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia between...

Corvette or a Chrysler Hemi engine, but it will beat a "Volkswagen, a slow freight train, or your old man's Cadillac. Numerous upgrades were standard to make...