History
The locomotives started life as members of the since-withdrawn Da class diesel-electric mainline locomotives, built by General Motors Canada and introduced to New Zealand between 1955 and 1967. Between 1978 and 1983, 85 of the later-build Das were rebuilt as EMD model G22AR, the DC class, with upgraded engines, new cabs and low short hoods of a style similar to the DX class introduced earlier in the 1970s and the DF class being introduced at the time. Five were rebuilt at the Hutt Workshops near Wellington and the other 80 at Clyde Engineering in Australia.
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