EMD G8

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CN 805 is a narrow gauge G8 built for service in Newfoundland. It is preserved at the Canadian Railway Museum in St.Constant, Quebec, photographed on June 15, 2006.

Preserved former Victorian Railways T class G8 locomotive T 413, originally delivered as a 1067 mm narrow-gauge locomotive but later converted to 1600 mm broad gauge operation.

The G8 was a General Motors diesel locomotive with 382 built between 1954 and 1965 for both export and domestic use. They were built by both Electro-Motive Division in the United States and by General Motors Diesel Division in Canada for use in ten countries, being equipped to operate on several different track gauges. The G8 was built for use in Australia, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Liberia, and New Zealand.

The G8 was also built in Australia under licence by Clyde Engineering, with Victorian Railways purchasing a total of 89 between 1955 and 1969, with later variants including a redesigned cab, carbody and radiator (the G8B)^[1] and those built after 1967 (the G18B) equipped with the newer EMD 645 engine rather than the EMD 567 which had been fitted to the earlier locomotives.^[2] They were designated as the T class.

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victorianrailways.net T class page Includes schematic diagram and original October 1954 VR Newsletter article on the G8 locomotive.

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