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Gauge-converted motive power for Mozambique exports

qui, 18 nov 2010 - 11:00 | by frc.vfco

Locomotiva DDM45 embarcada pela Vale para Moçambique

EMD-built DDM 45 loco no 855, one of two units that have already headed to Mozambique for export coal haulage.

Vale, Brazil, has shipped EMD-built type DDM45 locomotives nos 853 and 855 to Mozambique for use with coal exports from Moatize.

Built in the 1970s and of 3,600hp, the diesel-electric locomotives have been converted to 1,067mm gauge (Cape gauge) as Vale requires beefy motive power for the export coal project in the country using the refurbished 3' 6" gauge Beira - Tete line to haul an initial 11 million tonnes per year.

It is reported that 20 such locomotives will be deployed to Mozambique. The DDM45 is an 8-axle locomotive, a rebuild from EMD’s type SD45 for ‘narrow’ gauge (1,000mm).

Editor’s comment, (with tongue firmly in cheek): Considering that the ‘DDM’ forming the loco type description stands for D-D (i.e. 8-axles in two trucks or bogies) = wheel arrangement plus the M for metre gauge, shouldn’t the re-gauged loco’s now be reclassified as DDC’s for Cape Gauge?

by John Batwell | November 18-19, 2010

http://ports.co.za/news/news_2010_11_18_01.php

de    Doug Cummings
responder a    World-Diesel-Loco@yahoogroups.com
data    8 de janeiro de 2011 12:33

The M in DDM does not mean meter. It means modified (from standard).

Doug

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