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Watco Australia WRA Class
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by National Railway Equipment Company· Australia diesel-electric locomotive
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- 1. WRA001: Pytomelon87· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Watco Australia WRA Class is an Australian diesel-electric locomotive, built by the National Railway Equipment Company in the United States for use on Watco Australia's services in Queensland.
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
- 1.7 MW is about 20 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 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
- —
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- National Railway Equipment Company
- operators
- Watco Australia
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- weight
- 94.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q85847992, Wikipedia: Watco Australia WRA Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.