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TasRail TR class
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Progress Rail Services· from 2013· class of 17 Australian diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. Tasrail-TR16-20160106-001: Gary Houston· CC0
what is it?
The TR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail, Patterson, Georgia, United States for TasRail in 2013–2014. They are currently the main Tasmanian locomotive class handling the majority of mainline services across the state.
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 13 years ago, in 2013.
- 1.7 MW is about 20 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 18 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2013–2014
- in service from
- 2013
- status
- in service
- number built
- 17
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Progress Rail Services
- operators
- TasRail
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 1.7 MW
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co-Co
- length
- 16.9 m
- weight
- 108 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q15712999, Wikipedia: TasRail TR class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.