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6E/5E Electric Locos

"Class 6E and 5E Electric Locomotives" COMMISSION. February 1992. 407 x 304mm, Acrylic+Masonite

This picture was commissioned to be presented as a retirement gift to 'Flip' Conradie, a popular senior engineer in the South African Railways (now 'Spoornet'). It features the standard workhorse of South Africa's network, the '6E' electric locomotive (3kV DC), in the old brick-red livery. On the right are two older '5E' locos, the blue one used to haul the country's famous luxury "Blue Train" between Pretoria and Cape Town.