It looks like it is time to farewell our beasts of the coal roads.
The New South Wales 90 Class locomotives were purpose-built for one job—hauling enormous coal trains through the Hunter Valley—and they have been doing it with remarkable reliability since entering service in 1994. Built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) in London, Ontario, Canada, the class was designed to deliver exceptional tractive effort rather than outright speed. Weighing in at 165 tonnes and powered by the legendary EMD 16-710G3A engine, they remain the heaviest diesel locomotives to operate on the New South Wales network. Their immense weight restricts them almost exclusively to Hunter Valley coal traffic, but that's exactly where they belong. They may not be the most glamorous locomotives on the rails, but when there's a mountain of coal to move, the 90 Class has long proved that there's simply no substitute for raw muscle.
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9002
Named: Michael Wendon
Builders #: 1374/918266-2
Service: 5/1994
Scrapped: 6/2026
Age: 32 years, 1 month
9002 9014 9022 - Empty Coal - Hunter River
Photo: Brad Peadon
9002 9004 - Special Tour - Singleton.
Units were brand new at the time.
Photo: Bradly Coulter
9002 9012 9004 dead hauled behind 8241 8258
for storage in Werris Creek.
4525G Grain - Thornton
Photo: Bradly Coulter
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9012 (Also reported to be gone)
Named:
Neil Brooks, Peter Evans, Mark Kerry & Mark Tonelli
Builders #: 1384/918266-12
Service: 6/1994
Scrapped: 6/2026
Age: 32 years
9012 90xx - Empty Coal - East Maitland
Photo: Brad Peadon
9012 90xx - Empty Coal - Hexham
Photo: Brad Peadon
9012 9005 - Coal To Pt Waratah - Warabrook
Photo: Brad Peadon
9012 - Peek A Boo - Maitland
Photo: Brad Peadon
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