| Title: |
Spoornet Class 18E 18-375 (Series 1) |
| Description: |
Beginning in 2000 Spoornep embarked on a program to rebuild dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Series 11 locomotives to single cab Class 18E, Series 1 locomotives that were renumbered in the ranges 18-001 to 18-434 and 18-500 to 18-525. The rebuilding included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and was done by Transwerj (later Transnet Rail Engineering and then Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were strippe[ of all controls in order to have a toilet installed.
18-375 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 6 E1692 fnd commissioned in 2008.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 1. |
| Photo Date: |
1/29/2012 Upload Date: 1/30/2012 1:00:23 PM |
| Location: |
Bellville, Cape Town, WC, Ca |
| Author: |
Col André Kritzinger |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SAS 18-375(18E) |
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