 CLF class locomotives operated by Australian Railroad Group. Australian Railroad Group (ARG is one of Australia 's largest private rail operators operating across almost 10000 kilometres of track and began operating in Western |
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| Power type | Diesel-electric |
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| Builder | Clyde Engineering, Grantville |
| Total production | 17 |
| Configuration | Co-Co |
| Gauge | Standard Gauge |
The CL class are an Australian diesel electric locomotives ordered by the Commonwealth Railways in 1970. Downer EDI Rail ( EDi Rail until 2 July 2007) is a rail company based in Australia. The Whyte notation for classifying Steam locomotives by Wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte Other classification schemes like Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. A Diesel locomotive is a type of Railroad Locomotive in which the prime mover is a Diesel engine. The Commonwealth Railways were established in 1912 as part of a government department currently called the Department of Transport and Regional Services, by the Government 17 were built. They passed to Australian National after its establishment, and in 1993 the whole fleet were rebuilt into either the CLF and CLP classes by Morrison Knudsen Australia. The Australian National Railways Commission (ANRC was a government owned railway operator in Australia. Washington Group International was an American corporation which provided integrated engineering construction and management services to businesses and governments around the world
The CLF were intended for freight, but the CLP class were fitted with a head end power generator for use with passenger trains such as the Indian Pacific, The Ghan, and The Overland. Head end power (HEP or Electric train supply ( ETS) in the United Kingdom is a Rail transport term for the electrical power distribution system Route The route leaves East Perth Station and travels first along a dual gauge section of the Midland suburban line and east to Kalgoorlie, then following Early history The Overland originated as the Intercolonial Express when the Victorian Railways Western Line was extended to the South Australian The class are now owned by Australian Railroad Group or Genesee and Wyoming Australia on interstate freight trains. Australian Railroad Group (ARG is one of Australia 's largest private rail operators operating across almost 10000 kilometres of track and began operating in Western Genesee and Wyoming Australia is an Australian rail freight operator based in Adelaide, South Australia.
One CLP was scrapped after the Mt Christie accident.
