According to The Citizen (published in Dar-es-Salaam), 
“TRL [Tanzania Railways Limited] workers at the Morogoro workshop managed to rehabilitate two defunct engines to show the government that they can run the company without the foreign partner. They asked the government to provide them with required facilities and spare parts so that they could rehabilitate all engines and wagons that have been grounded.

“The engines had been idle since Rail India Technical and Engineering Services (Rites) partnered with the government to establish TRL after the divestiture of the former Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC). Speaking here when unveiling the two engines, the secretary-general of the Tanzania Railway Workers Union (TRAWU), Mr Silvester Rwegasira, showered praise on workers of the Morogoro workshop who revived the locos. ‘You have shown that you care for public property as you have used your expertise and restored the locos which were regarded by the investor as obsolete,’ he said.

“He said the two engines were among five that had been revived by TRL technicians and were now in use. ‘And the good thing is that the revived engines are better and work more efficiently than those leased from Rites,’ he said. TRL technicians who had 
repaired the engines said in their speech that they started to work on them in October last year after getting spare parts. They said there were four others lying idle and they could revive them if provided with required facilities and spare parts. They chided Rites saying the two engines which it took to India for repairs failed to work when they were returned last August. ‘They were tested twice in a trip from Morogoro to Dodoma and they could not make it… they are still lying idle though their repair bill is in millions of shillings,’ said the workers.”

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