EMD G12

Original Owners

B-B version

Australia

• 7 BHP Whyalla DE class

  Brazil

• 2 Estrada de Ferro de Goiás 5201–5202
• 30 Mogiana Railway 3001–3030
• 43 Estrada de Ferro Noroeste do Brasil 1101–1143
• 17 Rede de Viação Paraná-Santa Catarina 1321–1337
• 18 Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro 700–717
• 25 Rede Mineira de Viação 2201–2207, 2211–2228
• 71 Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul 2121–2145, 2161–2168, 6169–6206
• 35 Estrada de Ferro Vitória a Minas 531–565

  Canada

• 2 London & Port Stanley Railway L4, L5
• 1 General Motors Diesel demonstrator 7707

  Chile

• 3 Andes Copper Mining 81–83, currently on service by Ferronor.

  Egypt

• 97 Egyptian Railways 3701–3797. During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel captured 3712, 3715, 3766 and 3795, which were appropriated to Israel Railways stock.

  Israel

• 23 Israel Railways 104–126, some since rebuilt with 12-645E engines. After the 1967 Six-Day War, four captured Egyptian G12s were renumbered 127–130.

  Iran

• 137 Islamic Republic of Iran Railways 40.01–40.137
• Driver cab of most of the active units have been changed to full view like GT26.
• Railway Research Center has converted one of G12 loco to Hybrid locomotive in 2001 with AC drive.

  Hong Kong

• 5 Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation No. 51–55
• * Built by Clyde Engineering in Sydney, Australia in 1955 and 1957.
• * 51 Sir Alexander, named after by-then governor of Hong Kong in 1955, Alexander Grantham, was retired in 1997 and donated and preserved in Hong Kong Railway Museum in 2004.
• * 52–55 were retired in June 2004 and re-sold to Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia in October 2005, arriving that December and reentering service in late 2006-early 2007 as TL152–TL155. Before being loaded on the ship to Australia, the locomotives had their nameplates removed and KCR logos painted over.
• ** TL152 sold to K&AB Rail c. 2014, to SCT 2020, now used as shunter at the Wimmera Intermodal Freight Terminal at Dooen.
• ** TL153 sold to the Dalby Machinery Centre in Dalby, west of Toowoomba in Queensland, as a static exhibit. On display at the entrance to the centre.
• ** TL154 owned by ALARC, stored at Tailem Bend. No longer operable due to copper thieves, used as source of spare parts for TL155.
• ** TL155 owned by ALARC. Restored in 2020, hired out to SCT.
• * The names of the locomotives were originally painted on the valance underneath the long hood catwalks, however they were replaced with cast nameplates in the late 1980s. All locomotives apart from 51 lost their names when sold to CFCLA.
• * 51 and 52 were built with Clyde's stock buffers-and-chain couplers, as well as the number board/headlight fixture flush with the top of the hoods. These were replaced with automatic couplers sometime after arrival in Hong Kong. 53 to 55 were built with slightly lowered number board fixtures.
• * In 1996, the locomotives were heavily modified, with large air conditioning units mounted to the cab, diesel generators installed in the No. 2 end to power them and full-length handrails. These modifications were retained on 51 at preservation, to illustrate the changes the locomotives had gone through during service in Hong Kong. Further modifications made to the locomotives in CFCLA service included installation of reinforced side windows, slightly widening the steps on the front left and rear right sides of the units and adding an extra rung to the modified steps. The original Hong Kong air conditioners had been removed when retired from KCR service, but new, smaller ones were fitted by CFCLA. The locomotives had the stock EMD exhaust pipes replaced with larger twin exhausts in the 1950s after arrival in Hong Kong, which were replaced with box-like exhaust silencers in the 1980s.
• As delivered, the locomotives wore a green livery, with a silver upper section and the numbers painted on the cabsides and ends. In the 1980s, this was changed to a grey livery, with the cabside numbers relocated to the hood sides and replaced with a KCR logo, but retaining the silver upper section. In 1996, 54 was painted in a blue livery with green valances. 52, 53 and 55 would soon after be repainted in a red livery with blue valances, which all other operating KCR diesels were soon repainted into. 51 did not receive this livery, and in 2003 was repainted into a rough approximation of its original livery based on the 1980s livery.

  Mexico

• 84 Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México 5806–5889

  Netherlands

• 5 Dutch State Mines SM 151-155. In 1970 sold to the Nederlandse Spoorwegen as series NS 2901–2905. In 1975 sold to Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha in Spain.

  South Korea

• 25 Korean National Railways 4001–4015, 4101–4110

  Nigeria

• 25 Nigerian Railways 1101–1125

  Norway

• 2 Sydvaranger 1, DE101 – G12

  Sri Lanka

• 2 Sri Lanka Railways Class M2C 626–627

  Sweden

• 1 locomotive bought by SJ in 1956, named at first T5, later T42. It was built by GM for sales demo in Europe, and SJ bought it afterwards. Now placed at the Swedish Railway Museum.

  Venezuela

• 3 Government Coal Mines 01–03

  A1A-A1A version

Argentina

• 25 Sarmiento Railway 4501–4525, later 6551–6575.

  Australia

• 13 Queensland Rail 1400 class

  Brazil

• 6 Rede Mineira de Viação 2708–2712
• 20 Viação Férrea do Rio Grande do Sul 2101–2120

  Indonesia

• 11 Indonesian State Railways BB201 01–BB201 11

  Mexico

• 6 Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México 5800–5805

  New Zealand

• 146 New Zealand DA class locomotive 1400–1545

  Sri Lanka

• 12 Sri Lanka Railways. All except M2 571 still in daily operation. Classified as Class M2
• * Class M2 569–573; One locomotive destroyed by terrorism.
• * Class M2A 591–593; 591 damaged by 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and later rebuilt
• * Class M2B 594–595
• * Class M2D 628–629

  Taiwan

• 52 Taiwan Railway R21–R72; some of their engines were replaced to 12-645E. R56–59: sent to Malawi Railways in July 2006.

  United States

• 1 Electro-Motive Division demonstrator 1956

  C-C version

Argentina

• 60 Sarmiento Railway as model GR12, initially 6576–6635 but later some were renumbered.

  Australia

• 10 Queensland Rail 1450 class
• 42 Queensland Rail 1460 class.
• 14 Western Australian Government Railways A class

  Chile

• 3 Andes Copper Mining Co GR12, 91–93
• 3 Chile Iron Mines GR12, 5–7
• 19 Chilean State Railways GR12, Dt13.01–Dt13.19
• 6 Cia De Acero Del Pacifico GR12, 701–706
• 10 FC AyB GR12, 1400–1409

  Colombia

• 27 National Railways of Colombia GR12, 401–427

  Liberia

• 7 National Iron Ore GR12, 21–27

  Peru

• 7 Cerro De Pasco GR12, 31–37

  S Africa

• 3 S African Iron Steel GR12, D31–D33

  Tunisia

• 6 Sfax-Gafsa Railway GR12, 501–506

  Preservation