Electric Locomotives - Germany: Books - History (2/3)

Neubau-Elektroloks der Deutschen Bundesbahn

The so-called Neubau electric locomotives became symbols of the modern Bundesbahn from the mid-1950s onwards. The blue E 10 was the standard express train locomotive for decades, its green counterpart, the E 40, the most frequently encountered freight train locomotive.
The light universal locomotive E 41 rounded off this range at the lower end, and the six-axle E 50 at the higher end. The steel blue and beige painted E 10.12 and a few years later the E 03 brought unrivalled elegance to the DB's tracks.

In addition to these legendary locomotive types, most of which have now disappeared from operational service, this book also presents the more recent vehicles such as the 111 or 151 series, the multi-system and the first three-phase electric locomotives of the Bundesbahn.

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Die Baureihe E 10 - Entstehung, Technik und Einsatzgeschichte

When the Deutsche Bundesbahn, founded in 1949, put the test locomotives of the E 10 series into service in 1952 and the series locomotives in 1956, they were seen as symbols of a new beginning and reconstruction after the Second World War.
On the DB's electric network, which grew rapidly from the mid-1950s, this series was responsible for transporting fast and, above all, high-quality trains.

The E 10's star began to fall when the series 103, 111 and later the 120 largely pushed it out of local transport. Most of the 416 E 10/110s built have now been scrapped.
But some of the machines reclassified as series 115 are still in daily use by the DB, even though they are already more than 50 years old. A few locomotives have found new employment with private railways. Several machines have been preserved as museum pieces.

The revised new edition of the book has been extended by 32 pages to 336. The supplement documents the development of the series from 2005 to 2015 and illustrates it with numerous new images.

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Die Baureihe E 50 - Einheits-Ellok für den schweren Güterzugdienst

The E 50 series, with a nominal output of 4500 kW and six axles, was considered the most powerful and longest standard locomotive series. 194 units were manufactured by 1973, and the last ones ended their service life in 2003. Two of these locomotives have been preserved as museums.

Despite being classified as standard electric locomotives, the E 50s had subtle external differences, which are presented in a separate chapter. The first machines were built for electrified routes in southern Germany.
With the expansion of the electrical network to the north, the area of use and the number of units expanded. The chronicle of the E 50 series sheds light on this development as well as the decline in the years around the turn of the millennium.
A comprehensive list of where all E 50s were stationed and a description of their use by the home depots are also included in this work.

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