The NR class are Australian diesel-electric locomotives using General Electric Generators and Traction Motors providing 4000 bhp output and built by A Goninan & Co for National Rail (NR) between 1996 and 1998. They are currently operated by Pacific National with a number on charter to Journey Beyond (The Train Operator) in Indian Pacific and Ghan livery.
The photos are of one of our locomotives, NR86 at Crook. Although we were told there were 2 locomotives, I think the locos were only doubled up for the steep climbs up through the Avon Valley and the Blue Mountains where the highest point reached was 1100metres above sea level. It's everyone's dream to get photos of a train as it rounds a bend. Not much chance of that on the 478 straight stretch but I did get a photo on the last morning at breakfast as we climbed into the Blue Mountains enroute from Adelaide to Sydney.
