9215 9008 /09 - 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.

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[dah72007]

Great video mate!, I Love Newie,

Typical p/n coal engines, the only time they seem clean is when the are new! poor old 92 class looks 20 years old! LOL, p.s are they running leslie rs5t's?

Thanks for sharing. Cheers DG