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Electric locomotives - Austria: books - history and types

Illustrated books on the history, types and technology of electric locomotives of the ÖBB (Österreichische Bundesbahnen) and other railway companies in Austria.

Die Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, ÖBB, RhB und DB (Lok-Legenden)

Hardly any other type of locomotive is as popular as the Swiss crocodiles, which owe their nickname to their characteristic appearance and to their long presence in everyday railway life.

From 1920 onwards, they played a key role in traction on the Gotthard for several decades. But the hard-to-miss "crocodiles" were also in tireless use on other railway lines from the very beginning, mainly pulling heavy and long freight trains. This made the locomotives synonymous with power, reliability and durability.

This volume of locomotive legends describes the history, development and use in words and pictures.

Pages of the book [LL] Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, oBB, RhB und DB (1)

Product details

Author:Hans-Bernhard Schönborn
Details:128 pages, 21 x 17 cm / 8.25 x 6.7 in, paperback
Illustrations:35 b&w and 113 colour photos, 9 drawings
Publisher:Transpress (D, 2014)
Series:Lok-Legenden
ISBN:9783613714823
Book: Die Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, ÖBB, RhB und DB

Die Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, ÖBB, RhB und DB

Language: German

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Der Taurus - Die Baureihe 182 der DB AG & die Reihe 1016/1116 der ÖBB (Lok-Legenden)

The Taurus is the award-winning, successful model among modern electric locomotives, of which more than 500 have been manufactured to date. At the end of the 1990s, the Austrian Bundesbahns (ÖBB) decided to purchase a new, faster and more powerful locomotive for express trains and freight transport - the 230 km/h, 6400 kW Taurus, which was developed and built by Siemens.

Pages of the book [LL] Der Taurus - Die Baureihe 182 der DB AG (1)

The new locomotive proved so successful that it is now in regular use in Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Switzerland. On September 2, 2006, Siemens even set a world record for conventional locomotives with a series-produced Taurus: on the new Nuremberg-Ingolstadt line, the machine reached 357 km/h.

Werner Kurtz is an expert on the Taurus and has written down the history, design and technology of the successful locomotive type in this volume.

Product details

Author:Werner Kurtz
Details:128 pages, 21 x 17 cm / 8.25 x 6.7 in, paperback
Illustrations:94 colour photos, 10 drawings
Publisher:Transpress (D, 2013)
Series:Lok-Legenden
ISBN:9783613714533
Book: Der Taurus - Die Baureihe 182 der DB AG & die Reihe 1016/1116 der ÖBB

Der Taurus - Die Baureihe 182 der DB AG & die Reihe 1016/1116 der ÖBB

Language: German

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