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New frames and sheds with refurbished guts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yIfbyrDBSI Iran imported 50+ GT26C second hand from Korail in the 2010/12 period, so with the 263 imported from EMD and Hyundai back in the 1960's, no shortages of 16-645 crankcase and alternator core. Still around a 100 wi...

Moemi's numeracy skills must be seriously questioned. Or the journalist/subs are quoting out of context. Vossloh only built 20 Afro 4000. The 13 delivered to SA, and the 7 plainly visible in the Google Earth image of Stadler's Valencia Works. The 5 PRASA Duals that were completed are also visible in...

10 C30ACMi were delivered to Cameroon in Q1 2018. I think that these may be a bit lighter than the similar units supplied to Angola and Mozambique. Differ to the Transnet 43 Class, UGL (Australian) bogies, and light weight traction motors, Angola/Moz locos 9 tonnes lighter. The Grindrod Phase 4 that...

I don't think that Railways Africa actually subscribe to any of the recognized wire services, like Bloomberg, AAP, or Reuters. They seem to surf the net and regurgitate what they discover, flogging it off as "news" 10 days or so later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guG9U8s7jMk https://cl...

The Constitutional Court has dismissed Swifambo Rail Leasing’s application, and upheld that the 2017 High Court ruling that Prasa had awarded the Afro 4000 contract through a corrupt tender process, and that it should, therefore, be set aside. Has the Constitutional Court set a precedent? Can Tran...

Spain! Government to Government! A recipe for disaster, perhaps Kenyan politicians are trying to emanate this Chap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Jaime There are still long lines of Spanish carriages (and a few Alco locos) stored in various yards around BA, when imported were in too poor a co...

GAC ended up purchasing a pair of SD45 (rebuilt with 16-645) for switching at their mine. Rebuild by NW's Altoona Works. https://www.facebook.com/altoonaworks/photos/a.10156546035810637/10160997106260637/?type=3&theater The mainline to the port is handled by CBG, whose loco fleet is exclusively ...

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A South African privateer should run rings around the hidebound rail bureaucrats in Zambia and Tanzania. Lets see if open access is allowed to flourish

Interesting article This para is enlightening Swartz said Premifield charged far less than Transnet Freight Rail for the hire of their locomotives – “an hourly rate of just over R1 000, while Transnet Freight Rail charges R1 859 to R3 594 for similar locos”. Premifield is the BEE middleman sup...

What a load of codswallop

Politician and his free loading mates on a jolly at the taxpayer's expense

Someone should remind the minister that rail in Malawi was privatised in 1999, so butt out and let the wealth generating side of the economy decide the best way to profitably manage their asset

Clearing the wreckage Enjoy a good laugh at the antics required to move a loco by road in the USA US State Governments are extremely parsimonious, and build highway bridges with low axle loadings. Add lifer State bureaucrats intent on polishing their trousers seats (apparently arse is no longer PC),...

"Written by a staff reporter", what a weird article The sub or the editor must have been high on dope to let this one through I seem to recollect that Vale completed the line a couple of years ago, as confirmed by Google Earth images, and the last of the 85 8 axle GE BB40-9WM arrived in la...

Evo Morales, the indigenous green socialist Bolivian President arrived in politics via his leadership of the cocalero movement. Cocaler or coca is the base from which cocaine is manufactured, so his initial constituency was the coca growers, he has made some weird statements in the past, possibly in...

Will this be the end of leased YDM-4 operations on the Maputo network? ADK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADK/ADB_class_diesel_multiple_unit Hopefully the table will be updated 8 units shipped last week, ADK681 - ADK688 689 was previously stripped for spares and 690 was sold to the NZ military for co...