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Downer EDI Rail GT46C ACe
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Downer Rail· from 2007· class of Australian diesel-electric locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SCT-class-locomotive: Marcus Wong Wongm· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. GT46C ACE locomotive GWB 105: Tomoyn· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The GT46C-ACe is a model of Australian diesel-electric locomotive designed and built by Downer Rail at its Cardiff Locomotive Workshops using Electro-Motive Diesel components until 2014, with later units built in Muncie, Indiana.
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.
- 3.4 MW is about 39 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.2 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2007
- in service from
- 2007
- status
- in service
- number built
- 79
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Downer Rail, Progress Rail Services
- operators
- Aurizon, Pacific National, SCT Logistics, Whitehaven Coal, Southern Shorthaul Railroad, Qube Logistics, Downer Rail, Genesee & Wyoming Australia
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- 3.4 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 21.2 m
- weight
- 134 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5303112, Wikipedia: Downer EDI Rail GT46C ACe (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.