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Downer EDI Rail GT42CU AC
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Downer Rail· from 1999· model of Australian diesel-electric locomotive
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. PN Class Loco PN002 at Downer EDI Maryborough (Qld).: Colinp· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The GT42CU AC is a model of diesel electric locomotives manufactured by EDi Rail, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. between 1999 and 2005 under licence from Electro-Motive Diesel, for use on narrow gauge railways in Queensland.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 27 years ago, in 1999.
- 2.5 MW is about 29 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 20.8 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 6 years (1999–2005).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1999–2005
- in service from
- 1999
- retired
- 2005
- status
- in service
- number built
- 62
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Downer Rail
- operators
- Pacific National, Aurizon
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 2.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 20.8 m
- weight
- 120 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5303109, Wikipedia: Downer EDI Rail GT42CU AC (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.