Core model
Capturing the compact hood, cab profile and Co-Co running gear.
In development New South Wales Government Railways
49 Class
A compact Clyde-built branch-line locomotive with a working life that reached far beyond its original Western Region home.
Built1960–64
Fleet18
Power950 hp
TCS The prototype
Small class.
Wide reach.
Clyde Engineering built 18 EMD G8C locomotives at Granville for the NSWGR between 1960 and 1964, delivered in three batches of six.
They entered service in the Western Region, working branch and main lines west of Lithgow before later moving into metropolitan trip, coal and ballast duties.
G8CPowered by an EMD 8-567C-series two-stroke diesel.
Co-CoSix powered axles combined useful adhesion with an 80-tonne locomotive mass.
124 km/hA versatile maximum speed for branch, freight and transfer duties.
TCS Development
Built around
character.
The TCS project is in development, with this page ready to grow as variations, features and release details are confirmed.
Identity
Period details, liveries and weathering will define each variation.
In game
Sound, configuration and testing will bring the class into Trainz.
TCS Project preview
The 49 Class
in detail.
Status Release date TBA
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More information will be added as the project progresses.