Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 III

what is it?

The Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 III is a class of metre gauge electric multiple unit railcars of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The class is so named because it was the third class of railcars of the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification type ABe 4/4 to be acquired by the Rhaetian Railway. According to that classification system, ABe 4/4 denotes an electric railcar with first and second class compartments and a total of four axles, all of which are drive axles.

who runs it

Rhaetian Railway

base stats

• speed 65 km/htop speed
• power 1 MWpower output
• weight 47 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

• 🚗1 MW is about 12 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏16.9 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.

multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.

spec sheet

built

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number built

6

kind

multiple unit

traction

electric

origin

🇨🇭 Switzerland

builders

Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, ABB Group

operators

Rhaetian Railway

top speed

65 km/h

power

1 MW

gauge

1,000 mm metre gauge

electric system

1000 V DC Overhead

wheel arrangement

Bo′Bo′

length

16.9 m

weight

47 t

Dutch name

RhB ABe 4/4 III

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