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Alstom Traxx

🇳🇴 Norway ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· from 1996· series of locomotives manufactured by Alstom, originally by Bombardier

🛤️ diesel locomotive diesel
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. Lokomotivausstellung am Tag der offenen Tür im Alstom-Werk Kassel (2) (cropped): Pechristener· CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. 2. Bombardier TRAXX 187 002-1, 100 years of the Lötschberg, Lalden: Fabien Perissinotto· CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. 3. DBAG/NOB Class 245: www.commons.wikimedia.org User: Master-davinci· CC BY-SA 3.0
  4. 4. Bombardier TRAXX F140 MS2: P. Christener· CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. 5. SBB Re 482: Thecrunchynutter· CC BY-SA 3.0
  6. 6. CargoNet CE 119: Eivindtoreid· CC BY-SA 3.0
  7. 7. MThB Re 486: Torsten Maue from Magdeburg, Deutschland· CC BY 2.0
  8. 8. CZ Class 386: Matijak· CC BY-SA 4.0
  9. 9. DBAG Class 146: Alexander Tutubalin· Public domain
  10. 10. HLE 17: Stijn Demaere· CC BY 4.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
Alstom Traxx, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Pechristener· CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Alstom Traxx (sold as Bombardier TRAXX before 2021) is a modular product platform of mainline diesel-electric and electric locomotives. It was produced originally by Bombardier Transportation and later Alstom, and was built in both freight and passenger variants. The first version was a dual-voltage AC locomotive built for German railways from the year 2000.

who runs it

Deutsche BahnDB Cargo

base stats

  • speed 200 km/htop speed
  • power 6.4 MWpower output
  • built 1,800made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

  • First built 30 years ago, in 1996.
  • Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
  • 6.4 MW is about 75 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • 18.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built
1996
number built
1,800
kind
Electric
traction
diesel
origin
🇳🇴 Norway
builders
ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom
operators
Deutsche Bahn, DB Cargo
top speed
200 km/h
power
6.4 MW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
electric system
AC, MS: 15 kV/16.7 Hz,, 25 kV/50 Hz AC, DC, MS: 1.5 kV, 3 kV DC, DE: - , Catenary
wheel arrangement
Bo′Bo′
length
18.9 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q676771, Wikipedia: Alstom Traxx (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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