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Downer EDI Rail GT42CU ACe
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Downer Rail· from 2007· class of Australian diesel-electric locomotive
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what is it?
The GT42CU ACe is a model of diesel electric locomotives manufactured by EDi Rail, Maryborough between 2007 and 2013 under licence from Electro-Motive Diesel, for use on narrow gauge railways in Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.
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 19 years ago, in 2007.
- 2.5 MW is about 29 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 6 years (2007–2013).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2007–2013
- in service from
- 2007
- retired
- 2013
- status
- in service
- number built
- 132
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Downer Rail
- operators
- Aurizon, East Coast Rail, Pacific National, Queensland Rail, Genesee & Wyoming Australia
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 2.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 22 m
- weight
- 120 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5303110, Wikipedia: Downer EDI Rail GT42CU ACe (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.