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Re 420

Type: SBB Universal-Locomotive Re 420 (Re 4/4II)
Producer: SLM Winterthur, BBC Baden, MFO Zürich, SAAS Genève
Build date: 1964 (Prototypes) 1967-1968 (1st Serie) 1969-1985 (2nd Serie)
Quantity: 277 (built) 259 (working in 2005)
Number Photographed Train:
Re 4/4II No.11227 and
Re 4/4II No.11224
Number after UIC: Re 420 101-349, Re 421 371-397
Number Classic: Re 4/4 II 11101-11349, Re 4/4 11371-11397 (not constant)
Operating Weight: 80 tons (Re 420)
Swiss Axis Formula: Bo’Bo’
Length over buffers: 14.8 meters (Prototypes) 14.9 meters (1st Series) 15.41 meters (2nd Series)
Height: 4.5 meters
Width: 2.97 meters
Power: 4'700 kW (~6'320 PS)
Max. Speed: 140 kph
Electric System: 15 kV 16.7 Hz
Starting tractive effort: 255 kN
Hour attraction: 167 kN
Discarded, Scrapped: since 2007
Home: Switzerland
Operator: SBB CFF FFS, SBB Cargo

Note: If you wanna see Re 4/4II in daily duty for passeger service you have to go to Bern or Basel, there you'll find quite some of them. In some years when the new Double decker trains are used, the Re 4/4II propably aren't so often in passenger service anymore.
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Re 460

Type: SBB Re 460 Multipurpose Electric Locomotive
Producer: Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) , Asea Brown Boveri (ABB)
Build date: 1991-1996
Quantity: 119
Number Photographed Train: Re 460 096-1 „Furttal"
Number UIC: Re 460 000-118
Number Classic: Re 4/4 VI 10701+ (never used)
Operating Weight: 84 tons
Swiss Axis Formula: Bo'Bo'
Length over buffers : 18.5 meters
Height: 4.5 meters
Width: 3 meters
Power: 6'100 kW (~8270 PS)
Max. Speed: 230 km/h
Electric System: 15 kV 16.7 Hz
Starting tractive effort: 300 kN
Home: Switzerland
Operator: SBB CFF FFS

Location: Bern Mainstation, Switzerland

Note: On the right side you see a white Train, it's the Re 465 004 with the Kambly Commercial a swiss biscuit manufacturer.
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Make
OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Model
C750UZ
Shutter Speed
1/400 second
Aperture
F/3.2
Focal Length
41 mm
ISO Speed
50
Date Taken
Apr 13, 2010, 11:24:20 AM
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Some Re 420 goes to a refit program and will haul supplement commuter trains in Zurich area. There will be a locomotive at every end (we call that sandwich train) connected by multiple control, that means that every one of this double deck train will be pulled and pushed by nearly 13'000 HP!