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New South Wales 79 class locomotive
built by General Electric· from 1943· class of electric locomotives
what is it?
The 79 class is a diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric, Erie, United States for the Department of Railways New South Wales in 1943.
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 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1943
- in service from
- 1943
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- builders
- General Electric
- top speed
- 56 km/h
- power
- 142 kW
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo
- length
- 8.8 m
- weight
- 39.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q7011643, Wikipedia: New South Wales 79 class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.