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Owner: South African Railways
Model:GE UM6BBuilt As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:GE 38608/1973Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Notes:SAR Class 91-000
Other locos with this serial:  SAS 91-006(UM6B)
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SAR Class 91-000 91-006
Title:  SAR Class 91-000 91-006
Description:  Between September and December 1973 the South African Railways placed twenty Class 91-000 GE UM6B diesel-electric locomotives in service on its two feet narrow gauge lines, numbered in the range from 91-001 to 91-020. The GE UM6B was designed and built by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania and is the largest two foot gauge diesel-electric locomotive in the world. When they became redundant, several were sold and one, no. 91-010, was equipped wih Bigfoot Cape Gauge bogies from a Class 36-000 in order to be employed as shunter at Swartkops Loco Depot in Port Elizabeth.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 91-000.
Photo Date:  10/18/2009  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 7:10:26 PM
Location:  Humansdorp, EC, ZA
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 91-006(UM6B)
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