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CBH class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by MotivePower· from 2012· class of Australian diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CBH 1 CBH 2 048: Daryle Phillips· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The CBH class is a class of diesel-electric freight locomotives designed and manufactured in the United States by MotivePower in Boise, Idaho, for Western Australian grain growers' co-operative CBH Group. The CBH class was ordered to haul grain trains on the open access rail network in the south of Western Australia. The trains, operated for CBH by Aurizon under a long-term contract, link various CBH grain collection points in the wheatbelt with CBH terminal and port facilities in Albany, Geraldton and Kwinana.
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 14 years ago, in 2012.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2012–2014
- in service from
- 2012
- status
- in service
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- MotivePower
- operators
- Aurizon
- top speed
- 90 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- weight
- 96 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5009103, Wikipedia: CBH class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.