EMD G16

The EMD G16 is a diesel locomotive built by General Motors in the United States and under licence by Clyde Engineering in Australia and MACOSA in Spain. It has been used in Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Spain and Yugoslavia and on the railways that succeeded it in the Balkans. Victorian Railways bought six G16C units built by Clyde as the X class, Brazil imported 41, Egyptian Railways took 111 G16 and seventeen G16W units around 1960 and 1965, and Israel captured three of them during the Six-Day War. In Hong Kong, four units served the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and locomotive 56 is now on display at Hung Hom station. The Nacionales de Mexico bought 24 in 1958 to 1960 to replace steam on light branch lines.