The South African Railways Class 9E, Series 1 of 1978 is an electric locomotive.
E9003 at Erts Yard, Kathu, 5 October 2015
Wabco brake air dryer on E9024
Ore train about 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Lamberts Bay
No. E9006 in SAR Gulf Red livery near Dingleton, Northern Cape, 14 May 2006
Sishen–Saldanha railway line
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The Sishen–Saldanha railway line, also known as the Ore Export Line, is an 861-kilometre-long heavy-haul railway line in South Africa. It connects iron ore mines near Sishen in the Northern Cape with
South African Class 9E, Series 1
…from each other by their bogies, which were redesigned for the Series 2 locomotives. Class 9E locomotives are used on the 861-kilometre-long (535-mile) Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line to haul export ore from the open cast iron mines at Sishen in the Northern Cape to the harbour at Saldanha in the Western Cape. Most of the route is…
Note the very long 50 kV insulators on the catenary masts
Example of a locomotive
Inside the cab of a locomotive