EMD G26

General Motors Electro-Motive Division
Industry	Locomotive manufacturing
Headquarters	United States, United States
Products	Diesel–electric locomotives (including G26)

The G26 is a diesel–electric locomotive originally produced by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in the United States and manufactured under license by Clyde Engineering in Australia. Engineered to provide improved traction on tracks with lighter axle loads, it is utilized in both mainline freight and passenger services.

Its operators encompass Australian Railroad Group, Freight Australia, Croatian Railways, Slovenian Railways, Serbian Railways, PT Kereta Api (Indonesia), Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, Israel Railways, Korail, ONCF (Morocco), and MTR Corporation.

Australia

Victorian Railways procured 18 G26C locomotives constructed by Clyde Engineering, designated as the X class. These units are presently managed by Pacific National and SCT Logistics.

In 1970, Queensland Rail acquired 102 GL26C-2 locomotives, locally assembled by Commonwealth Engineering acting as a subcontractor to Clyde Engineering, known within the fleet as the 2100 class. A portion of these, numbering ten, were later sold to Chile's FCAB.

TasRail operates four former Queensland Rail GL26C units, classified as the 2050 class, along with two G26C locomotives identified as the D class. The latter are planned for retirement by late 2014.

Former Yugoslavia

The JŽ 664 series, initially acquired by Yugoslav Railways, were allocated among Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia following the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

Brazil

Series 4500

EMD produced 36 G26CU locomotives in Illinois for Rede Ferroviária Federal to serve metre gauge lines in southern Brazil. Equipped with flexi-coil trucks, 30 of these units were transferred to ALL- América Latina Logística after the privatization in 1997. During the 2000s, ten locomotives underwent upgrades to G26CU-MP models featuring improved traction and fuel economy; others were converted into SLUG M2 variants. The majority have since been withdrawn from service, with all M2 models fully retired.

Hong Kong

In 1973, Kowloon-Canton Railway acquired three G26 CU locomotives numbered 60 to 62. After the MTR–KCR merger, these engines were leased to MTR Corporation in 2007. All were decommissioned by 2022; locomotive No. 60, named Peter Quick in honor of a former KCRC CEO, was donated to the Hong Kong Railway Museum in October 2023 for permanent exhibition.

Tunisia

From 1972 onwards, SNCFT operated five G26CU locomotives (060DH221 through 060DH225).

Egypt

Between 1973 and 1976, Egyptian Railways utilized 33 G26CW units numbered from 3412 to 3429 and from 3430 to 3444.

Israel

Israeli Railways employed fifteen G26CW locomotives between 1971 and 1978, carrying numbers from 601 to 615.

Turkey

In 1989, Turkish State Railways (TCDD) acquired eighty-six G26CW-2 units, which were assigned numbers DE22001 through DE22086.

South Korea

The Korean National Railroad purchased ten G26CW locomotives in 1969 (numbered 6301–6310), primarily intended for passenger operations; all were retired by the late 1990s.

Indonesia

PT Kereta Api Indonesia ordered a total of forty-eight G26MC-2U locomotives (classified as CC202) between 1986 and 2008. Initially deployed for hauling bulk coal shipments between Tanjungenim and Tarahan with lengthy coal trains, these have mostly been superseded by the modern CC205.

These locomotives feature an axle load of eighteen tons. A revised numbering system introduced in 2010 incorporates manufacturing year codes and resets numbering for each production batch (for example, first batch CC202 units numbered 01–15 were renumbered as CC202 86 01–15). Except for one unit that was scrapped following a severe accident in 2012, all remain active. Most are painted in the Perumka livery updated with PT KAI's logo introduced in 2020; some still carry older PJKA color schemes. As of 2019, all CC202 locomotives are stationed at the Tarahan depot in Lampung.

References

Croatian HŽ series 2062