The route was electrified in 1916 using the 600V DC third and fourth rail system, with the purchase of new electric rolling stock.
Today, the purpose of the organization remains largely the same including the preservation of non-Iowa operated electric rolling stock.
The T sets replaced the first generation of Sydney's electric rolling stock.
Rail operation with electric rolling stock, however, was maintained.
There is a proposal that the line could be restored as third rail electrified, allowing operation of the Society's electric stock.
Cost, excluding electric rolling stock, for the first phase is estimated at $471 million (2006 dollars).
The trains it has designed will be the first electric rolling stock to run on Malaysia's rail system.
Better vehicles did however appear early in the 20th century with the 'Balloon stock' and also the 'electric stock'.
The stock was finally withdrawn in 1939 with the introduction of emergency war timetables and replaced with main line size electric stock.
Repairs of electric rolling stock began in 1990.
