Tags: Locomotive.
The South African Class 34-500 of 1974 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive from the South African Railways era.Between 1974 and 1977 the state owned South African Iron and Steel Corporation now Kumba Iron Ore placed forty-four General Electric type U26C diesel-electric locomotives in service on its 1974 built Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line and as heavy shunters at the Sishen mine. In 1977 another two locomotives were built for the Douglas Colliery near Witbank.
