Nigerian locomotive classes include: [1]
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Builder - English Electric
Date introduced - 1955
Engine - English Electric SRKT - 676 hp
Maximum speed - 55 miles per hour (89 km/h)
Weight (in working order) - 52.76 tons
Number in class - 10
Builder - Electro Motive Division of General Motors
Date introduced - 1958
Engine - EMD 12-567C - 1310 hp
Maximum speed - 50 mph
Wheel arrangement - A1A-A1A
Weight (in working order) - 78.5 tons
Number in class - 25
Builder - Electro Motive Division of General Motors
Date introduced - 1977
Engine - EMD 12-645E - 1500 hp
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - Co-Co
Weight (in working order) - 80 tons
Number in class - 30
Builder - Mak
Date introduced - 1961
Engine - MaK MA301FAK - 1170 hp
Maximum speed - 50 mph
Wheel arrangement - A1A-A1A
Weight (in working order) - 65.98 tons
Number in class - 7 (8th delivered in 1962)
Builder - AEI / Metropolitan Vickers
Date introduced - 1966
Engine - Sulzer LDA28C - 1300 hp
Maximum speed - 43 mph
Wheel arrangement - Co-Co
Weight (in working order) - 77.85 tons
Number in class - 27+2
Builder - Hitachi
Date introduced - 1972
Engine - MAN 6V 22/30ATL - 1500 hp
Maximum speed - (Not Known)
Wheel arrangement - 1Co-Co1
Weight (in working order) - 80 tons
Number in class - 12
Builder - Montreal Locomotive Works (Bombardier Inc)
Date introduced - 1972
Engine - ALCO 8.251E - 1500 hp
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - 1Co-Co1
Weight (in working order) - 99.41 tons
Number in class - 54
Builder - General Electric (USA)
Date introduced - 1976
Engine - GE - FDL-12 - 2200 hp
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - Co-Co
Weight (in working order) - 91.55 tons
Number in class - 6
Builder - General Electric (USA)
Date introduced - 1977
Engine - GE FDL-8 - 1820 hp
Maximum speed - (Not Known)
Wheel arrangement - Co-Co
Weight (in working order) - 82.13 tons
Number in class - 45
Builder - ABB
Date introduced - 1992
Engine - EMD 12-645E3B - 1750 hp (assumed)
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - Co-Co
Weight (in working order) - 100 tons (assumed)
Number in class - 10
Builder - Hyundai - Based on an EMD design
Date introduced - After 1991
Engine - EMD 12-645E3B (assumed)
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - Co-Co
Weight (in working order) - not known
Number in class - 5
Builder - Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works, China
Date introduced - 1996 to '99
Engine - type not known - 3000 hp
Maximum speed - 120 km/h (75 mph)
Wheel arrangement - Co-Co
Weight (in working order) - 90 tons
Number in class - 50
Builder - MaK
Date introduced - 1958
Engine - MaK MS304 - 388 hp
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - 0-6-0DH
Weight (in working order) - 40.1 tons
Number in class - 15
Builder - Brush Traction
Date introduced - 1973/8
Engine - Ruston Paxman RPHXL MK7 - 364 hp
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - 0-6-0DE
Weight (in working order) - 39.5 tons
Number in class - 42
Builder - North British
Date introduced - 1963
Engine - Paxman RPHL
Maximum speed - not known
Wheel arrangement - 0-8-0DH
Weight (in working order) - tons
Number in class - 2
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A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually rather referred to as a multiple unit, motor coach, railcar or power car; the use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains, but rare for freight.
The SD80MAC was a 5,000 horsepower (3.7 MW) C-C diesel-electric locomotive. It was powered by a 20-cylinder version of EMD's 710G prime mover, and was the second diesel locomotive by GM-EMD to use a V20 engine, since EMD's SD45 series. It introduced a wide radiator housing similar to GE Transportation locomotives and the placement of dynamic brakes at the rear of the locomotive, which is a quieter location, features that were incorporated into the SD90MAC and SD70ACe models. Key spotting differences between the SD80MAC and SD90MAC include no external rear sandbox on the SD90MAC, no rear lighted number boards on the SD90MAC, and the placement of the front numberboards. The SD80MAC also had recessed red marker lights in the nose, an identifying feature unique to Conrail (CR) locomotives, although Norfolk Southern (NS) had removed the lights on most of their former Conrail engines.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-0 represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. The wheels on the earliest four-coupled locomotives were connected by a single gear wheel, but from 1825 the wheels were usually connected with coupling rods to form a single driven set.
4-4-0 is a locomotive type with a classification that uses the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement and represents the arrangement: four leading wheels on two axles, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and a lack of trailing wheels. Due to the large number of the type that were produced and used in the United States, the 4-4-0 is most commonly known as the American type, but the type subsequently also became popular in the United Kingdom, where large numbers were produced.
The AAR wheel arrangement system is a method of classifying locomotive wheel arrangements that was developed by the Association of American Railroads. Essentially a simplification of the European UIC classification, it is widely used in North America to describe diesel and electric locomotives. It is not used for steam locomotives, which use the Whyte notation instead.
The British Rail Class D2/11 was a British class of locomotive designed in 1958 by Brush Traction and Beyer, Peacock & Company, which co-operated to produce five prototype diesel-electric shunting locomotives of 0-4-0 wheel arrangement. They were intended to demonstrate a new generation of diesel shunters for industrial and mainline use. Two were loaned to British Railways for trials and one, number D2999, was subsequently purchased by BR. However, no large scale orders resulted from these demonstrators.
In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 2-8-8-0 is a locomotive with a two-wheel leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and no trailing truck.
EMD E-units were a line of passenger train streamliner diesel locomotives built by the General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) and its predecessor the Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC). Final assembly for all E-units was in La Grange, Illinois. Production ran from May 1937, to December, 1963. The name E-units refers to the model numbers given to each successive type, which all began with E. The E originally stood for eighteen hundred horsepower, the power of the earliest model, but the letter was kept for later models of higher power.
The Evolution Series is a line of diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation Systems, initially designed to meet the U.S. EPA's Tier 2 locomotive emissions standards that took effect in 2005. The first pre-production units were built in 2003. Evolution Series locomotives are equipped with either AC or DC traction motors, depending on the customer's preference. All are powered by the GE GEVO engine.
The British Rail Class 28 diesel-electric locomotives, known variously as 'Metrovicks', 'Crossleys' or 'Co-Bos', were built under the Pilot Scheme for diesel locomotives as part of the British Railways 1955 Modernisation Plan.
The British Rail Class 41 diesel-hydraulic locomotives were built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow during 1957 and 1958. Although they were withdrawn before TOPS was introduced, British Rail classified them as Class 41. All were named after Royal Navy vessels, hence the nameplates each bore a subtitle "Warship Class".
The Yorkshire Engine Company (YEC) was a small independent locomotive manufacturer in Sheffield, England. The company was formed in 1865 and produced locomotives and carried out general engineering work until 1965. It mainly built shunting engines for the British market, but also built main line engines for overseas customers.
Co-Co is the wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, with a separate traction motor per axle. The equivalent UIC classification (Europe) for this arrangement is Co′Co′, or C-C for AAR.
The Erie-built was the first streamlined, cab-equipped dual service diesel locomotive built by Fairbanks-Morse, introduced as direct competition to such models as the ALCO PA and FA and EMD FT. F-M lacked the space and staff to design and manufacture large road locomotives in their own plant at Beloit, Wisconsin, and was concerned that waiting to develop the necessary infrastructure would cause them to miss out on the market opportunity for large road locomotives. Engineering and assembly work was subcontracted out to General Electric, which produced the locomotives at its Erie, Pennsylvania, facility, thereby giving rise to the name "Erie-built."
NSB Di 3 is a class of 35 diesel-electric locomotives built by NOHAB for the Norwegian State Railways (NSB). The class was built between 1954 and 1969, and delivered in two series, Di 3a and Di 3b. They are based on the Electro-Motive Division F7 and are equipped with EMD 567 engines. They have a distinct bulldog nose and were numbered 602–633 (a-series) and 641–643 (b-series). The locomotives had a prime mover that gives a power output of 1,305 kilowatts (1,750 hp). The a-series has a Co′Co′ wheel arrangement, while the b-series has (A1A)(A1A). The b-series has higher top speed, but lower tractive effort.
British Rail Class D3/11 was a locomotive commissioned by the Great Western Railway, but delivered to its successor British Rail in England. It was a diesel powered locomotive in the pre-TOPS period.
The EMD GP49 is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. Power was provided by an EMD 645F3B 12-cylinder engine which generated 2,800 horsepower (2.09 MW). The GP49 was marketed as one of four models in the 50 series introduced in 1979. The 50 series includes GP/SD49 and GP/SD50. Both the GP and SD50 were relatively popular with a total of 278 GP50s and 427 SD50s built. The SD49 was advertised but never built and a total of nine GP49s were built.
The Bharatian locomotive class WDP-4 is a passenger-hauling diesel-electric locomotive with AC electric transmission designed by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and built by both GM-EMD and under license by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) of Varanasi, India for Bharatian Railways as the classes WDP4, WDP4B and WDP4D. The GT46PAC is a passenger version of the previous Bharatian Railways EMD GT46MAC freight locomotive. The locomotive has a 16-cylinder 710G3B diesel engine and is one of the fastest diesel-electric locomotives in service in Bharatian Railways.
LNER Class Y11 was a class of petrol powered 0-4-0 locomotives built by Motor Rail & Tram Car Company Limited under their Simplex brand and introduced in the years 1919–1925, operating after its formation in 1922 on the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). Their British Railways numbers were 15097-15099. It was known as LNER Z6 before 1943.
The South African Railways Class C 4-6-0T of 1879 was a steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Colony of Natal.