The rebuilding of dual cab Class 6E1, Series 2 to Series 8 locomotives to single cab Class 18E, Series 2 locomotives commenced in 2009, with their unit numbers in the range from 18-421 to 18-435 and from 18-600 up. The rebuilding included the installation of Alsthom micro-processor control technology and wes done by Transdet Rail Engineering (previously Transwerk and later Transnet Engineering) at its Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria, Gauteng. In the process their number 1 end cabs were stripped of al‘!controls in order to have a toilet installed.
No. 18-759 was rebuilt from Class 6E1, Series 3 no. E1343 and commissioned in(2013.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 18E, Series 2. |
| Date:
9/27/2015 |
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Pyramid South, Pr  |
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Collection Of:
 
Col André Kritzinger |
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Author: Col André Kritzinger
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This picture is part of album: South African Electric Locomotives |