9022 /02 /01 - East Maitland, NSW, Australia 2010

Friday 26th of March 2010

I travelled some 3 hours north to the Hunter Valley region to film the 90 class locomotives. These very long coal trains deliver to Newcastle port for the loading onto ships.

The 90 class are a class of heavy mainline diesel locomotive introduced from 1994 in the state of New South Wales. They are the heaviest locomotives on the network and are only used on Hunter Valley coal workings.
Purchased under a Ready Power contract like the 82 class, the first batch of 90 class were built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD), London, Ontario, Canada (90019031) in 1994, while new locomotives were obtained in 2006, built by EDI Rail Cardiff, New South Wales (90329035).
Despite two manufacturers of the 90 class, the specifications remain the same. They have EMD 16-710G3A sixteen cyliner, two-stroke engines, rated at 3,030 kW (4,060 hp), have a mass of 165 t, have Co-Co axles and have a maximum speed of 115 km/h. The EMD 710 series was the last major development of large two-stroke engines by the former Electro-Motive Division of the General Motors Corporation. More recent engine development has focused on a new four stroke design.
90 Class locomotives are of a single ended cab design, with an almost identical cab layout to the 82 Class. The 90 class are restricted to coal haulage in the Hunter Valley due to their size and weight. They are usually found to be working in threes, but are also found working with 81 Class, 82 Class, 92 Class and G Class locomotives which now frequent the Hunter Valley on Pacific National coal workings.
A large number of the class are named after Olympic sportsman from past Games. 90019031 are in the FreightCorp Livery, with Pacific National decals over the FreightCorp logo, while the 4 which were built by EDI have the Pacific National livery.

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[TrainSpotterX]

Very clean mate !

[bebuggered85]

i noticed theres no graffiti on them un like the ones here

in sydney

[TrainSpotterX]

In that area it's nearly all coal trains, the Hunter Valley region has been that way for over a 100 years.

[coachguard]

Big lenght difference between the two trains :)

A lot of heavy trains there! Nice videos.