23101 Amanah at Old KL Station. 23 class locomotives seems to have the most obvious mud moustache. It's actually very fine dust from wheels being pulled by the loco.
Class 23 was built by Hitachi, Japan. It made it's debut in Malaysia in 1983. It is still used. I heard there are a lot of reliability problem with this class. Class 23 are also quite hard to spot at Kuala Lumpur this days because isnt many which is still active. This is one of my favourite loco. It uses Pielstick engine. This loco produces 2160 horsepower. From what i experienced, this engines are quite underpowered and shouldn't be used for passenger trains.
Railroad number and names
23101
AMANAH
23102
BIJAK
23103
BERANI
23104
BERSIH
23105
CEKAP
23106
GAGAH
23107
HANDAL
23108
HORMAT
23109
IKHLAS
23110
JUJUR
23111
MAJU
23112
PANDUAN
23113
PANTAS
23114
SEDIA
23115
SETIA
Various photos of 23 Class which i took over the years. Pictures open in new window.
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At Jalan Kastam, pulling containers.
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2005
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23115 leaving Northport on a very hot day.
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2005
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23103 reversing at Kluang to enter the loop for crossing with another train.
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2005
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Amanah with Ekspress Rakyat from Ipoh near KLO.
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Amanah leaving for KL Sentral with Express Rakyat.
