industry rail asset leasing founded november 1998 headquarters millers point key people ian gibbs ceo parent chicago freight car leasing company 51 % marubeni corporation 49 % subsidiaries cf rail services website www.cfcla.com.au cfcl australia cfcla is an australian locomotive and rolling stock leasing company operating in the rail freight market . cfcla leases assets to a number of private rail operators in the local rail industry predominantly on the defined standard gauge interstate network . though primarily based in new south wales cfcla s assets can be found operating in most australian states and with all major train operating companies . it has rolling stock on both long term lease to these companies as well as assets that are available for spot hire . it is owned by chicago freight car leasing company and marubeni corporation contents 1 history 2 cf rail services 3 fleet 4 references 5 external links history edit el class locomotives in january 2007 s311 leading cfcla grain hoppers on an el zorro operated train near meredith in january 2008 cfcl australia was established in 1998 by the american chicago freight car leasing company . its first contract was for the supply of a small fleet of radio controlled automated ballast hoppers to westrail . the first locomotives acquired were 13 members of the el class from australian national in november 1998 . 1 2 in 2000 it diversified into wagons . 3 in march 2009 the marubeni corporation purchased a 49 % stake in cfcla . 4 in november 2012 cfcla unveiled its first intrastructure train in the pilbara region of western australia . 5 as at october 2014 it had locomotives operating construction trains on the roy hill line and on the hamersley & robe river railway . 6 cf rail services edit cf rail services logo in september 2010 cfcla took out a lease on the goulburn railway workshops to maintain both its locomotive and wagon fleets with the facility named the australian horse power service centre . 7 8 9 as well as maintaining its own fleet chicago freight car leasing australia also perform maintenance for other operators including qube logistics . it also maintains locomotives at islington railway workshops in adelaide . cf rail services was established in 2013 bringing together the australian horse power service centre and the bluebird rail operations engineering business at islington . 10 fleet edit initially the cfcla locomotive fleet comprised second hand locomotives no longer required by rail operators or re manufactured units that had been given life extending overhauls . more recently it has purchased new locomotives the cfcla diesel locomotive fleet is made up of a variety of different classes of units ranging from modern high power units to older mainline locomotives and smaller branch line and shunting units . 11 as at october 2014 it comprised 88 locomotives . 6 class image type gauge top speed km h number notes el class diesel electric standard 13 ex australian national fl class diesel electric 1 ex freightcorp 422 class gl class diesel electric standard 12 rebuilt ex freightcorp 442 class hl class diesel electric standard 1 ex freightcorp 422 class 442 class diesel electric standard 2 ex freightcorp via various operators 500 class diesel electric 1 ex south australian railways b class diesel electric broad 2 ex v line via various operators t class diesel electric broad 5 ex v line via various operators s class diesel electric broad 2 ex v line via various operators c class diesel electric broad 3 ex v line via various operators g class diesel electric broad 3 ex v line via various operators tl class diesel electric 1 ex kowloon canton railway robe river de43 class diesel electric 8 ex rio tinto vl class diesel electric 12 new build cf class diesel electric 12 new build cm class diesel electric 16 new build most locomotives in the fleet are named after famous australian race horses . the cfcla fleet also comprises over 1 700 freight wagons of a variety of types including ballast hoppers grain hoppers bulk mineral hoppers and intermodal flat wagons of varying lengths and carrying capabilities . cfcla wagons generally have four character identification codes starting with the letter c. 12 references edit leon oberg 2007 . locomotives of australia 1850s 2007 . rosenberg publishing . p. 9 . isbn 1 877058 54 8 . els sold to us bidder railway digest december 1998 page 12 cfcla wagon expansion railway digest june 2000 page 13 joint venture cfcla trainsets 2013 2014 cfcl australia a b australia wide fleet list motive power issue 96 november 2014 pages 66 67 bright future for goulburn railway workshops chicago freight car leasing australia 2 september 2010 workshops roll ahead goulburn post 12 june 2012 born in chicago railway digest november 2012 page 34 history cf rail services locomotives chicago freight car leasing australia wagons cfcl australia external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cfcl 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