RhB Ge 4/4 I.

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Ge 4/4 I.
Ge 4 / 4I 607 ​​"Surselva"
Ge 4/4 I 607 "Surselva"
Numbering: 601-610
Number: 10
Manufacturer: SLM BBC MFO
Year of construction (s): 1947, 1953
Retirement: from 2010
Axis formula : Bo'Bo '
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Length over buffers: 12,100 mm
Height: 3950 mm
Width: 2650 mm
Trunnion Distance: 6200 mm
Service mass: 48 t
Friction mass: 48 t
Top speed: 80 km / h
Hourly output : 1,184 kW (1,600 hp)
Driving wheel diameter: 1070 mm
Power system : 11 kV 16.7 Hz
Power transmission: 2 pantographs,
from 1997 single-arm pantographs
Number of traction motors: 4th
Translation levels: 1: 5.4
Type of speed switch: High voltage tap changer
Locomotive brake: 45 t
Successor: RhB Ge 4/4 II

The RhB Ge 4/4 I is a locomotive series of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) with the type designation Ge 4/4 .

The Glacier Express was one of the operational areas of the Ge 4/4 I right up to the end , here on the Schmittentobel Viaduct
Ge 4/4 I No. 601 around 1980.
Ge 4/4 I 602 in Pontresina . A Ge 4/4 II can be seen on the other side of the train .
Ge 4/4 I No. 610 in Davos

The ten machines were the first RhB electric locomotives without a rod drive . In 1944, four locomotives were ordered from the Swiss Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik Winterthur (SLM), and the first machine was put into operation in July 1947. Mainly used in the express train service, they proved themselves very well, so that the RhB ordered six more copies in 1953. They were pushed into subordinate services with the deliveries of the Ge 6/6 II and the Ge 4/4 II . Between 1986 and 1991 the locomotives were modernized, in particular new, more spacious driver's cabs were added and the locomotives were equipped with multiple and remote controls. Since then, some locomotives have been in use with lighter shuttle trains, initially with retrofitted center entry cars , today with standard cars . A long-term area of ​​application was the tunnel-rich route from Davos to Filisur , from 2009 these compositions operated in the Engadine. Work at the edge of the hour was already recorded across the whole network, after 1997 also to Arosa . In winter, a locomotive with a control car and the center entry car that has been converted into a bicycle car is used as a Bergün – Preda – Bergün toboggan train. From 1997, the old pantographs were replaced by new single-arm pantographs to enable use on the re-electrified Arosabahn .

The Bo'Bo ' locomotives are now 80 km / h fast (originally 75 km / h) and have an output of 1,184 kW . They weigh 48 t and are 12,100 mm long. On a 35 ‰ incline the trailer load is 185 t, at 45 ‰ it is 135 t.

The locomotives were baptized with the names of the Bündner Mountains, but two locomotives (607 and 610) were given the name of valley communities in Graubünden , in whose canton the Rhaetian Railway operates its route network. Since the renovation, the names have been in white letters on both sides in the middle under the roof edge, the road numbers 601–610 on the two front sides and on the bottom side.

In November 2010, the Rhaetian Railway began to gradually take the locomotives of this series out of service and scrap them after more than 50 years of service. On November 16, 2010, locomotive 601 was the first to be scrapped in Chur, after the engines and other parts had previously been removed in the main workshop in Landquart. The locomotive 603 "Badus" will be preserved, it will be brought to the Museum Bahnpark Augsburg in Germany. The locomotive 602 “Bernina” was handed over to the Verkehrshaus Luzern on March 7, 2012 (five-year loan).

Due to the construction work on the new Albula Tunnel , all of the remaining locomotives are currently in use in front of freight trains with stone from the tunnel construction site or in front of supply trains for the same. As of May 2018, the locomotives can once again be found in front of Glacier Express trains.

List of Ge 4/4 I of the Rhaetian Railway

Company number Baptismal name Installation status
601 Albula 07/08/1947 Canceled November 2010
602 Bernina 07/21/1947 loaned to the Verkehrshaus Luzern from March 2012 to November 16, 2015 (actually as a five-year loan); at the RhB since November 16, 2015; back in operation since 13.07.2016
603 Badus 08/13/1947 in operation, handover to Bahnpark Augsburg planned
604 Calanda 08/23/1947 March 2011 canceled
605 Silvretta 03/12/1953 in operation
606 Kesch 06/15/1953 Canceled April 2011
607 Surselva 04/24/1953 March 2011 canceled
608 Madrisa 06/15/1953 March 2011 canceled
609 Linard 05/13/1953 Canceled May 2011
610 Viamala 07/03/1953 in operation

literature

  • Rhaetian Railway (Ed.): Rhaetian Railway today - tomorrow - yesterday . Publishing group (Desertina Verlag, Disentis; Verlag M & T-Helvetica, Chur; Terra Grischuna Verlag, Bottmingen) 1988, ISBN 3-907036-08-5 (Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the railway)
  • Wolfgang Finke, Hans Schweers: The vehicles of the Rhaetian Railway 1889-1998 . Volume 3: Locomotives, railcars, tractors. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-89494-105-7 .

Web links

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