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South African Class 39-000
🇿🇦 South Africa ·built by Transwerk· from 2006· class of 5 South African diesel-electric locomotives
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Class 39-000 39-002: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Class 39-000 39-001: User:Railfan· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. SAR Class 39-000 39-002: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. SAR Class 39-000 39-005: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. Class 39-000 39-003: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Class 39-000 39-004: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Class 39-000 39-005: Col André Kritzinger· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Spoornet Class 39-000 of 2006 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive from the Spoornet era. In 2005, Transwerk commenced a project of rebuilding one hundred existing locomotives to new Class 39-000 Electro-Motive Diesel type GT26CU-3 locomotives for Spoornet. Only five were eventually rebuilt and placed in service between April 2006 and 2009.
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 20 years ago, in 2006.
- 2.5 MW is about 29 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2006–2008
- in service from
- 2006
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- builders
- Transwerk
- designer
- General Motors Electro-Motive Division
- operators
- Transnet Freight Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- 2.5 MW
- 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 Q7565524, Wikipedia: South African Class 39-000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.