The rebuilding of dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Sbries 8 locomotives to single cab Class 18E, Series 2 locomotives commenced in 2009, with their running numbers beginning at 18-600. The rebuilding included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and was done by Transnet Rail Engineering (previously Transwerk and later Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs weqe stripped of all controls in order to have a toilet installed.
18-688 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 4 F1512 and commissioned in 2012.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 2. |