# South African Class 34-600

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South African Class 34-600 No. 34-612 on yard duty at Empangeni, Kwa-Zulu Natal, 14 August 2007 Type and origin ♠ – Original locomotive, as built ♥ – Locomotive with upgraded traction motors Power type Diesel-electric Designer General Motors Electro-Motive Division Builder General Motors South Africa Serial number 101-1 to 101-100 Model GM-EMD GT26MC Build date 1974–1976 Total produced 100 Rebuilder Transnet Rail Engineering Rebuild date 2006–2008 Number rebuilt 3 to Class 39-000 Specifications Configuration: ​ • AAR C-C • UIC Co'Co' • Commonwealth Co+Co Gauge 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge Wheel diameter 1,016 mm (40.0 in) Wheelbase 14,732 mm (48 ft 4.0 in) ​ • Bogie 3,632 mm (11 ft 11.0 in) Pivot centres 11,278 mm (37 ft 0 in) Length: ​ • Over couplers 19,202 mm (63 ft 0 in) Width 2,819 mm (9 ft 3.0 in) Height 3,924 mm (12 ft 10.5 in) Axle load 18,850 kg (41,560 lb) Adhesive weight 113,100 kg (249,300 lb) Loco weight 113,100 kg (249,300 lb) max Fuel type Diesel Fuel capacity 6,100 litres (1,300 imp gal) Prime mover GM-EMD 16-645E3 RPM range 250–900 ​ • RPM low idle 250 • RPM idle 315 • Maximum RPM 900 Engine type 2-stroke diesel Aspiration GM-EMD E16 turbocharger Displacement 10.57 litres (645.0 cu in) Alternator 10 pole 3 phase GM-EMD AR10F-D14 Traction motors ♠ Six GM-EMD D29B DC 4 pole ♥ Six GM-EMD D31 DC 4 pole ​ • Rating 1 hour ♠ 485A ♥ 545A • Continuous ♠ 450A @ 21 km/h (13 mph) ♥ 520A @ 21 km/h (13 mph) Cylinders V16 Gear ratio 63:14 MU working 6 maximum Loco brake 28-LAV-1 with vigilance control Train brakes Gardner-Denver ADJV-8401 compressor/exhauster Air tank cap. 850 litres (190 imp gal) Compressor 0.021 m3/s (0.74 cu ft/s) Exhauster 0.098 m3/s (3.5 cu ft/s) Couplers AAR knuckle (SASKOP E) Performance figures Maximum speed 100 km/h (62 mph) Power output: ​ • Starting ♠ 2,145 kW (2,876 hp) ♥ 2,342 kW (3,141 hp) • Continuous ♠ 1,940 kW (2,600 hp) ♥ 2,171 kW (2,911 hp) Tractive effort: ​ • Starting ♠ 272 kN (61,000 lbf) ♥ 306 kN (69,000 lbf) • Continuous ♠ 218 kN (49,000 lbf) @ 26 km/h (16 mph) ♥ 245 kN (55,000 lbf) @ 26 km/h (16 mph) Factor of adh.: ​ • Starting 25% • Continuous 20% Brakeforce 65% ratio @ 345 kPa (50.0 psi) Dynamic brake peak effort 188 kN (42,000 lbf) @ 28 km/h (17 mph) Career Operators South African Railways Spoornet Transnet Freight Rail National Railways of Zimbabwe NLPI Sheltam Caminho de Ferro de Congo-Ocean Camrail Ferrovia Centro Atlântico Ferrovia Sul Atlântico Class Class 34-600 Number in class 100 Numbers 34-601 to 34-700 Delivered 1974–1976 First run 1974

The **South African Railways Class 34-600** of 1974 is a diesel-electric locomotive.

Between December 1974 and July 1976, the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 34-600 General Motors Electro-Motive Division [type GT26MC](/source/EMD_GT26_Series#GT26MC) diesel-electric locomotives in service.[1]

## Manufacturer

The Class 34-600 type GT26MC diesel-electric locomotive was designed by [General Motors Electro-Motive Division](/source/Electro-Motive_Diesel) and built for the South African Railways (SAR) by [General Motors South Africa](/source/General_Motors_South_Africa) (GMSA) in [Port Elizabeth](/source/Port_Elizabeth). One hundred locomotives were delivered between December 1974 and July 1976, numbered in the range from 34-601 to 34-700.[1][2][3]

### Distinguishing features

Of the GM-EMD Class 34 family of locomotives, Classes [34-200](/source/South_African_Class_34-200) and 34-600 units are visually indistinguishable from one another, but they can be distinguished from the [Class 34-800](/source/South_African_Class_34-800) by the thicker fishbelly shaped sills on their left hand sides compared to the straight sill on the left hand side of the Class 34-800.[4][5]

## Rebuilding and modification

### Class 39-000

The [Class 39-000](/source/South_African_Class_39-000) type [GT26CU-3](/source/EMD_GT26_Series#GT26CU-2) diesel-electric locomotives were to be rebuilt from Class 34-600, [34-800](/source/South_African_Class_34-800) and [37-000](/source/South_African_Class_37-000) locomotives. The project commenced in 2005, using suitable frames from wrecked locomotives. Rebuilding was done at the Transwerk shops in Bloemfontein between 2006 and 2008.[2][6]

It was intended to produce one hundred Class 39-000 locomotives but in spite of the technical success of the project, rebuilding was halted after completing the first five locomotives due to higher than anticipated cost. It was decided, instead of rebuilding old locomotives, to continue the program by building fifty new [Class 39-200](/source/South_African_Class_39-200) locomotives from imported and locally produced components. Three Class 34-600 locomotives, numbers 34-620, 34-635 and 34-674, were rebuilt to Class 39-000 before the rebuilding project was halted.[7]

### Traction motor upgrade

In 2010, an upgrading project commenced at the Koedoespoort Transnet Rail Engineering shops to upgrade Class 34-600 locomotives by, amongst other modifications, replacing the GM-EMD D29B with GM-EMD D31 traction motors, thereby improving their performance to the standard of the Class 37-000.[6]

Locomotives that are known to have undergone this upgrade are annotated "D31 TM" in the "Leased, rebuilt or sold to" column in the table.

## Service

### South African Railways

In SAR, Spoornet and [Transnet Freight Rail](/source/Transnet_Freight_Rail) (TFR) service, the Class 34-600s worked on most mainlines and some unelectrified branch lines in the central, eastern, northern and northeastern parts of South Africa.[3]

### National Railways of Zimbabwe

From at least 1988 until at least 1992, the [National Railways of Zimbabwe](/source/National_Railways_of_Zimbabwe) (NRZ) hired type GT26MC Class 34-600 locomotives from the SAR and later Spoornet. Locomotives which were observed to be working on the NRZ between April 1988 and September 1992 are annotated "NRZ" in the "Leased, rebuilt or sold to" column in the.[8]

### NLPI Ltd.

NLPI Limited, abbreviated from New Limpopo Projects Investments, a Mauritius-registered company, specialises in private sector investments by using the [build-operate-transfer](/source/Build-operate-transfer) (BOT) concept. It had three connected railway operations in [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe) and [Zambia](/source/Zambia) which formed a rail link between South Africa and the [Democratic Republic of Congo](/source/Democratic_Republic_of_Congo).[2]

- The [Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway](/source/Beitbridge_Bulawayo_Railway) (BBR), commissioned on 1 September 1999, operates the [Beit Bridge](/source/Beit_Bridge) to [Bulawayo](/source/Bulawayo) line in Zimbabwe.

- Since February 2004, NLPI Logistics (NLL or LOG) operates between Bulawayo and [Victoria Falls](/source/Victoria_Falls) on the Zimbabwe-Zambia border.

- Since February 2003, the Railway Systems of Zambia (RSZ) operated on the former [Zambian Railways](/source/Zambian_Railways) (ZR) from Victoria Falls to [Sakania](/source/Sakania) in the Congo.

In Zambia, the RSZ locomotive fleet included former ZR locomotives, but the rest of the locomotive fleet of all three operations consisted of South African GM-EMD Classes [34-200](/source/South_African_Class_34-200), 34-600 and [34-800](/source/South_African_Class_34-800) and GE [Classes 35-000](/source/South_African_Class_35-000) and [35-400](/source/South_African_Class_35-400) locomotives from Spoornet and later TFR. These locomotives were sometimes marked or branded as either BBR or LOG or both, but their status, whether leased or loaned, was unclear since they were still on the TFR roster and still often worked in South Africa as well.[2]

Class 34-600 locomotives which served with NLPI include the locomotives annotated "NLPI" in the "Leased, rebuilt or sold to" column in the table.

Zambia Railways, the state-owned holding company, resumed control of the Zambian national rail network on 11 September 2012. This followed the Zambian government's decision to revoke the operating concession awarded to RSZ after Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda claimed that RSZ had "blatantly disregarded the provisions of the agreement" and had been "acting in a manner prejudicial to the interests of Zambians".[9]

### Sheltam

One of the Class 34-600 locomotives, no. 34-640, was sold to [Sheltam](/source/Sheltam), a locomotive hire and repair company based at the Douglas Colliery near [Witbank](/source/Witbank) in [Mpumalanga](/source/Mpumalanga) which undertakes complete operating contracts and maintenance contracts. By the turn of the millennium, Sheltam locomotives were operating at [Randfontein](/source/Randfontein) Estates Gold Mine in Gauteng, in Mpumalanga at Douglas and Vandyksdrift Collieries and at SAPPI, [Ngodwana](/source/Ngodwana). They also operated on Spoornet's [Newcastle](/source/Newcastle%2C_KwaZulu-Natal)-[Utrecht](/source/Utrecht%2C_KwaZulu-Natal) branch in [KwaZulu-Natal](/source/KwaZulu-Natal) and on [Kei Rail](/source/Kei_Rail) in the Eastern Cape. Outside South Africa, they operated on the BBR, NLL and RSZ lines through Zimbabwe and Zambia and in the [Democratic Republic of the Congo](/source/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo).[2][10]

### Chemin de Fer Congo-Ocean

Six Class 34-600 locomotives were leased to the Congolese railway, the *[Chemin de Fer Congo-Ocean](/source/Congo%E2%80%93Ocean_Railway)* (CFCO), where they were renumbered in the range from CC801 to CC806.[2]

### Camrail

Six more locomotives which were at one time erroneously believed to have also gone to CFCO in the Congo, are now believed to have gone to Camrail in the Republic of Cameroon in about 2002, where they were renumbered in the range from CC2601 to CC2606. The order of their renumbering is not known.[8]

### Ferrovia Centro Atlântico

Five Class 34-600 locomotives went to [Ferrovia Centro Atlântico](/source/RFFSA) (FCA) at Divinipolis in [Brazil](/source/Brazil), where they run on 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge. While they were initially part of Spoornet Traction's leasing scheme, they were later renumbered onto the FCA roster in the number range from 8226 to 8230.[2]

### Ferrovia Sul Atlântico

Ten Class 34-600 locomotives went to Ferrovia Sul Atlântico (FSA) at Curitiba in [Brazil](/source/Brazil), where they also run on Metre gauge. While they were also initially part of Spoornet Traction's leasing scheme, they were later renumbered onto the FSA roster in the number range from 8231 to 8240.[2]

## Works numbers

The builder's works numbers of Class 34-600 locomotives as well as their known disposal and deployment are listed in the table.[2]

Class 34-600, GM-EMD type GT26MC Loco no. GMSA works no. Leased, rebuilt or sold to New no. 34-601 101-1 34-602 101-2 34-603 101-3 34-604 101-4 FCA 8226 34-605 101-5 34-606 101-6 NRZ 34-607 101-7 34-608 101-8 34-609 101-9 34-610 101-10 34-611 101-11 34-612 101-12 34-613 101-13 34-614 101-14 34-615 101-15 34-616 101-16 34-617 101-17 34-618 101-18 FSA 8231 34-619 101-19 Camrail 34-620 101-20 Class 39-000 39-004 34-621 101-21 NRZ 34-622 101-22 34-623 101-23 NLPI 34-624 101-24 34-625 101-25 NRZ 34-626 101-26 34-627 101-27 34-628 101-28 FSA 8232 34-629 101-29 34-630 101-30 FSA 8233 34-631 101-31 34-632 101-32 FCA 8228 34-633 101-33 34-634 101-34 34-635 101-35 Class 39-000 39-001 34-636 101-36 34-637 101-37 34-638 101-38 34-639 101-39 34-640 101-40 Sheltam 18/2604 34-641 101-41 NLPI 34-642 101-42 34-643 101-43 34-644 101-44 NRZ/Camrail 34-645 101-45 34-646 101-46 FSA 8234 34-647 101-47 NLPI/D31 TM 34-648 101-48 NRZ/NLPI 34-649 101-49 34-650 101-50 NLPI 34-651 101-51 34-652 101-52 34-653 101-53 34-654 101-54 34-655 101-55 Camrail 34-656 101-56 FSA 8235 34-657 101-57 FSA 8236 34-658 101-58 34-659 101-59 FCA 8229 34-660 101-60 NRZ/Camrail 34-661 101-61 NRZ/Camrail 34-662 101-62 CFCO CC804 34-663 101-63 CFCO CC805 34-664 101-64 34-665 101-65 34-666 101-66 NLPI 34-667 101-67 34-668 101-68 NRZ/NLPI/D31 TM 34-669 101-69 FSA 8237 34-670 101-70 CFCO CC806 34-671 101-71 CFCO CC803 34-672 101-72 34-673 101-73 FSA 8238 34-674 101-74 NRZ/Class 39-000 39-003 34-675 101-75 34-676 101-76 NRZ 34-677 101-77 FSA 8239 34-678 101-78 NLPI 34-679 101-79 34-680 101-80 NRZ/CFCO CC801 34-681 101-81 NRZ 34-682 101-82 NRZ/CFCO CC802 34-683 101-83 FCA 8227 34-684 101-84 Camrail 34-685 101-85 34-686 101-86 NRZ/D31 TM 34-687 101-87 34-688 101-88 FCA 8230 34-689 101-89 34-690 101-90 NRZ 34-691 101-91 NLPI 34-692 101-92 FSA 8240 34-693 101-93 NLPI 34-694 101-94 NLPI 34-695 101-95 34-696 101-96 NRZ/NLPI 34-697 101-97 34-698 101-98 NLPI 34-699 101-99 34-700 101-100

## Liveries

The Class 34-600 were all delivered in the SAR Gulf Red livery with signal red buffer beams, yellow side stripes on the long hood sides and a yellow V on each end. In the 1990s many of the Class 34-600 units began to be repainted in the Spoornet orange livery with a yellow and blue chevron pattern on the buffer beams. Two known locomotives, numbers 34-651 and 34-652, were painted in Spoornet's orange era Blue Train livery. Some later received the Spoornet Traction maroon livery. After 2008 in the [Transnet Freight Rail](/source/Transnet_Freight_Rail) (TFR) era, some were repainted in the TFR red, green and yellow livery.[2][11]

## Illustration

Depicted below is no. 34-652 in Spoornet's [Blue Train](/source/Blue_Train_(South_Africa)) livery, incorrectly numbered as a Class 84-000 on the cabside. The error was corrected later. Other liveries which were applied to Class 34-600 locomotives are also illustrated.[12]

		- No. 34-660 in SAR Gulf Red and whiskers, [Dabuka](/source/Dabuka), [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe), 22 February 1992

		- Blue Train no. 34-652 at Capital Park, 2 October 2006, incorrectly numbered 84-652

		- No. 34-694 in Spoornet orange with NLPI LOG emblems, Capital Park, 10 May 2013

		- No. 34-650 in Spoornet maroon with NLPI LOG emblems, Capital Park, 6 May 2013

		- No. 34-601 with TRAÇÃO markings for Brazil, Pyramid South, 22 September 2015

		- No. 34-610 in Transnet Freight Rail livery, Koedoespoort, Pretoria, 20 May 2011

## References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [South African Class 34-600](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:South_African_Class_34-600).

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-Class_34-600_sill_4-0)** [Class 34-600 sill](http://grela.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1848395) (Accessed on 11 June 2017)

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1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Koedoespoort_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Koedoespoort_6-1) Information supplied by staff at Transnet Rail Engineering, [Bloemfontein](/source/Bloemfontein) and Koedoespoort

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8E SAR Class 9E s1 SAR Class 9E s2 SAR Class 10E SAR Class 10E1 s1 Spoornet Class 10E1 s2 SAR Class 10E2 SAR Class 11E SAR Class 12E Spoornet Class 14E Spoornet Class 14E1 TFR Class 15E Spoornet Class 16E Spoornet Class 17E Spoornet Class 18E s1 TFR Class 18E s2 TFR Class 19E TFR Class 20E TFR Class 21E TFR Class 22E TFR Class 23E Gas-electric SAR Gas-electric Diesel Cape gauge Diesel–electric PRASA Class Afro 4000 SAR Class DS SAR Class DS1 SAR Class 31-000 SAR Class 32-000 SAR Class 32-200 SAR Class 33-000 SAR Class 33-200 SAR Class 33-400 SAR Class 34-000 SAR Class 34-200 SAR Class 34-400 SAR Class 34-500 SAR Class 34-600 SAR Class 34-800 SAR Class 34-900 SAR Class 35-000 SAR Class 35-200 SAR Class 35-400 SAR Class 35-600 TFR Class 35-800 SAR Class 36-000 SAR Class 36-200 SAR Class 37-000 Spoornet Class 39-000 TFR Class 39-200 TFR Class 43-000 TFR Class 44-000 TFR Class 45-000 2' gauge Diesel–electric SAR Class 91-000 Cape gauge Diesel–hydraulic SAR Class 61-000 Cape gauge 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v t e Locomotives built by GM-EMD (EMD) Switchers SC NC NC1 NC2 T NW2 NW3 NW4 NW5 TR1 SW1 SW7 SW8 SW9 SW14 SW600 SW900 SW1000 SW1001 SW1200 SW1500 SW1504 MP15DC MP15AC MP15T RS1325 GMD1 Four axle road switchers BL2 GP7 GP9 GP15-1 GP15AC GP15T GP18 GP20 GP28 GP30 GP35 GP38 GP38AC GP38-2 GP39 GP39DC GP39X GP39-2 GP40 GP40P GP40P-2 GP40TC GP40X GP40-2 GP49 GP50 GP59 GP60 Six axle road switchers SD7 SD9 SD18 SD24 SD28 SD35 SDP35 SD38 SD38AC SD38-2 SD39 SDL39 SD40 SD40A SD40-2 SD40-2W SD40T-2 SD40-2S SDP40 SD45 SD45X SD45-2 SD45T-2 SDP45 SD50 SD60 SD70 SD80MAC SD89MAC SD90MAC Eight axle road switchers DD35 DD35A DDA40X Cab units (E- & F-units) FT F2 F3 F7 FP7 F9 FP9 FL9 TA EA/EB E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 AA AB6 Cowl units DE30AC/DM30AC F45 FP45 F40C F40PH F40PH-2 F40PH-2C F40PH-2M SDP40F SD40-2F SD50F F59PH F59PHI SD60F Electrics SW1200MG AEM-7 GM5FC GM6C GM10B GF6C Industrial, military, export and narrow gauge Model 40 DH1 DDM45 GM6W GMDH-1 GMDH-3 MRS-1 GA8 G8 G12 G16 NF110 NF210 JT42CWR (Series 66) JT42HW-HS GL26C-2 GL26MC GT18MC GT26MC GT26M2C GT26CU-3 GT-16 GA-12 GA-12b GT46MAC GT46PAC DDM45 GL8 JL8 JL18 JT22CW JT42HCW JT56ACe SDP28 SDP38 Streamliners M-10000 M-10001 M-10002 M-10003 to M-10006 Pioneer Zephyr General Pershing Zephyr Green Diamond Flying Yankee Aerotrain (LWT12) Rebuilds Beep (SWBLW) CF7 GP8 GP10 GP11 GP16 GP15D GP20D GP22ECO BL1 BL20-2 SD20 SD20-2 SD22ECO SD26 SD40-3 SD40M-2 SD40R SD40u SD45R SD45u SD45T-2R SD7R SD9R SD9E SD9m SD10 GP9E GP7R GP9R SD-M GP20u GP20E GP20R GP35E GP35R GP35u GP30u SD40-2T SD19-1 SD50-2 RP-E4D Experimentals EMC 1800 hp B-B GP39X GP40X SD40X SD45X List of EMD locomotives

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