Between 1987 and 1989 the South African Railways placed fifty Class 10E1, Series 1 heavy goods 3 kV DC electric locomotives with a Co-Co wheel arrangement in mainline service, numbered in the range from 10-051 to 10-100. The locomotive, which makes use of either regenerative or rheostatic braking as the situation demands, was designed by the General Electric Company (GE8) and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Alass 10E1, Series 1. |