New Zealand DF class locomotive (1979)
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The New Zealand DF class locomotive of 1979 is a class of 30 Co-Co diesel-electric locomotives built by General Motors Diesel of Canada between 1979 and 1981. Between 1992 and 1997, all the locomotives were rebuilt as the DFT class, a turbocharged version of the DF.
DFT7295 departing the Ashburton yard, 20 February 2013. Note the enlarged driver's side windscreen.
DF6006 at Avondale. The locomotive's two small front windscreens have been modified to a large single windscreen.
DFT7145 in former Tranz Rail "Bumble Bee" livery in Ahuriri Yard, Napier - 8 June 2003
DFB7010 at Morningside station with a 6-car SA set
Locomotives of New Zealand
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Locomotives of New Zealand is a complete list of all locomotive classes that operate or have operated in New Zealand's railway network. It does not include locomotives used on bush tramways.
1994 replica of 1872 Palmerston locomotive was built on a 1931 La-6 truck and is outside Foxton's Court House Museum, as seen in 2018
Image: Coastal Pacific 01
Image: Dg 772 on the Ferrymead Railway with DE 1429 in September 2014
Image: Di 1102 at Waipara