#5872
South African Class 45-000
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by Transnet Engineering· from 2017· class of railway locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. South African Railways Class 45: Franciscus3668· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. South African Railways Class 45-006: Franciscus3668· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Transnet Freight Rail Class 45-000 of 2015 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive.
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 9 years ago, in 2017.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2017
- in service from
- 2018
- number built
- 232
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- Transnet Engineering
- operators
- Transnet Freight Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q60787669, Wikipedia: South African Class 45-000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.