SBB Am 6/6

what is it?

The Am 6/6, later known as Am 861, is a class of diesel shunting locomotive which were built for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and were intended for use as heavy hump shunters at the Limmattal classification yard. A total of six locomotives were built jointly by Thyssen Henschel and Brown, Boveri & Cie for SBB by and these received running numbers 18521 to 18526. In the late 1990s they received modernized electrical systems The locomotives utilized a Co′Co′ wheel arrangement and a diesel-electric transmission, had six three-phase asynchronous traction motors and Flexifloat bogies (bogies without pivots and cradles) while being powered by 1.440 kW (1,930 hp) diesel engines.

who runs it

Swiss Federal Railways

base stats

• speed 85 km/htop speed
• power 1.4 MWpower output
• weight 111 tin working order
• built 6made 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 50 years ago, in 1976.
• 🚗1.4 MW is about 17 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏17.4 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

1976

status

retired

number built

6

kind

Diesel

traction

diesel

origin

🇨🇭 Switzerland

builders

Henschel & Sohn

operators

Swiss Federal Railways

top speed

85 km/h

power

1.4 MW

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

Co′Co′

length

17.4 m

weight

111 t

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