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[DE / Expert] HELMS – Hybrid V90 on display during T&L 2019

Simon Wijnakker — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:34:17 +0000

Toshiba is currently involved in two project involving hybrid locomotives for shunting and mainline operation:

All new: series hybrid system locomotive ‘T-HDB 800’
Reconstruction: Series-parallel hybrid system locomotive BR 1094 ‘HELMS’

Series-parallel hybrid system locomotive: BR 1094 ‘HELMS’

For the first time, the public could get see and enter a ‘HELMS’ locomotive.

[DE / Expert] T&L 2019: Not the real thing yet – Toshiba presents hybrid technology for DB

Simon Wijnakker — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:18:49 +0000

Toshiba is currently involved in two projects involving hybrid locomotives for shunting and mainline operation:

All new: series hybrid system locomotive ‘T-HDB 800’
Reconstruction: Series-parallel hybrid system locomotive BR 1094 ‘HELMS’

T-HDB 800

Toshiba is designing a complete all-new hybrid shunting locomotive for Deutsche Bahn and Railpool.

[CN / Expert] CRRC releases more information about its Bison platform

Simon Wijnakker — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:03:03 +0000

Highlights

Update: Bison locomotive for Europe
Hamburg, Berlin, shunting locomotive update

The biggest producer of trains in the world, CRRC from China, now has a European office, and a European daughter company: CRRC ZELC Europe.

[EU / Expert] T&L 2019: the first customers of ELP

Simon Wijnakker — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:30:24 +0000

Highlights:

Lease company ELP announces the first lessees for its new EuroDual locomotives
Stadler Rail announces Euro6000 model

ELP, closely related to Stadler Rail, is a leasing company that is currently entering the market for lease locomotives.

[EU / Expert] T&L 2019: Bombardier Transportation

Simon Wijnakker — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:22:23 +0000

Highlights:

Why was there no TRAXX locomotive on display in 2019?
More TRAXX locomotives for Italy

During the 2013, 2015 and 2017 editions, Bombardier took a new TRAXX locomotive to the fair, always presented on a loader truck of DB Schenker.

[FR / Expert] Stadler’s Euro4001 in VFLI design

Konstantin Planinski — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:23:03 +0000

Last week, we gave you a sneak peek at the EuroDual of Voies Ferrées Locales et Industrielles (VFLI) in its final design.

[DE] The Stadler EuroDual in Captrain design

Simon Wijnakker — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:26:10 +0000

At the end of 2018, German rail freight operator ITL Eisenbahngesellshaft, a subsidiary of Captrain Deutschland, ordered four EuroDual locomotives.

[EU / Expert] Transport Logistic 2019: First More impressions [updated x2]

Konstantin Planinski — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:18:36 +0000

Reviews, technical specifications, new contracts… Yes, we are bringing you all this in our upcoming Expert articles. But before we begin, let’s just have a relaxing stroll at the fair.

[EU] Rail Freight Forward – EU railfreight operators present “Noah’s Train” [updated x8]

Konstantin Planinski — Fri, 24 May 2019 14:02:24 +0000

On 14.12.2018 a mobile art installation on rails left Katowice in Poland, starting a tour across Europe. This is ‘Noah’s train’: Ten green containers serve as canvas for different graffiti artists from five countries: Poland, Austria, Germany, France and Belgium.

[EU] +1: Stadler Rail presents the Euro4001 diesel-electric locomotive

Simon Wijnakker — Sun, 14 May 2017 23:59:53 +0000

During the Transport & Logistic exhibition last week we stumbled upon a new member of Stadler Rail’s locomotive platform: the ‘Euro4001’.