#4954
New South Wales 90 class locomotive
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Downer Rail· from 1994· heavy Australia diesel locomotive
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 9016 comes around Horseshoe Bend, 2016: JT1018· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9027: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9003: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9016 - 31628860338: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 5. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9016: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 6. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9024: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9027 - 30612260577: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 8. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9027 - 44828089964: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 9. National Pacific Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9029: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 10. Pacific National Class 90 4,060hp Co-Co No.9002: hugh llewelyn· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The 90 class locomotives were a class of heavy haul diesel-electric locomotives built 1994 to 2005 by Electro-Motive Division, Canada & EDi Rail, Cardiff for Pacific National for use on high tonnage Hunter Valley coal workings.
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 32 years ago, in 1994.
- 3 MW is about 36 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 28 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 22 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 32 years (1994–2026).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1994–2005
- in service from
- 1994
- retired
- 2026
- status
- retired
- number built
- 35
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Downer Rail, Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- Pacific National
- top speed
- 115 km/h
- power
- 3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 22 m
- weight
- 165 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7011655, Wikipedia: New South Wales 90 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.