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SBB De 6/6
🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works· from 1926· class of 3 Swiss C′C′ electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SBB Historic - F 122 00060 003 - Baldegg Stations- und Nebengebaeude Gueterschuppen und Gueterzug De 6 6: Hans-Rudolf Berner· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Swiss Class De 6/6 electric locomotives were built in 1926 for the Swiss Federal Railways. Ordered for the Seetalbahn line, which runs between Lenzburg and Emmenbrücke, they were Known as Seetal Crocodiles. In total 3 locomotives of this type were built, and numbered 15301–15303.
who runs it
base stats
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 100 years ago, in 1926.
- 850 kW is about 10 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
electric locomotive: Draws power from overhead wires or a third rail and pulls separate carriages.
spec sheet
- built
- 1926
- retired
- 1983
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Electric
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- builders
- Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Brown, Boveri & Cie
- operators
- Swiss Federal Railways
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 850 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Catenary, (also 5.5 kV 25 Hz AC catenary until 1930)
- wheel arrangement
- C′C′
- length
- 14 m
- weight
- 73 t
- nicknames
- Seetal Crocodile
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q688428, Wikipedia: SBB De 6/6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.