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Super High Speed Main Manufacturers EU and Railroading European Operators North Am. Operators RR Country Reference Rolling Stock Reference Locomotives Europe W Electric Eurosprinter Family Taurus Traxx Family Re460/465 Family Swiss Crocodiles Finnish Sr1 Diesel Class 66 Multiple Units Europe Stadler Flirt Locomotives Europe E Diesel 2Te116 Tep70 Tep70 Locomotives U.S.A. ES44AC/DC/C4/ES40DC C44-9/W/AC4400         | 4rail.net - Locomotives - Siemens Eurosprinter | ||
 Eurosprinter locomotive family is one of the most successfull in Europe. Siemens Mobility is the largest railroad rolling stock manufacturer in Europe and in many segments the first or the second in the whole world. We all know the Velaro/ICE super high speed trains family, Taurus locomotives and several other product lines of the huge company. Many of the current best seller products share the same family name: Eurosprinter. Eurosprinter is a generic name for Siemens built family of electric high tech powerful locomotives. Over 1000 units have so far been built. Given some development time, this page take a look at the background of the Eurosprinters, their evolution, technical details and finally share numerous pictures of the locomotives with you. * Eurosprinter History * Technical info for types: * Common components for Eurosprinters * Eurosprinter unit pictures *
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this page at Trainorders.com! --- Technical Info for the types  The latest Eurosprinter family is divided to two main segments: The Taurus, ES64UX, above forms the high speed multiuse section while the Eursprinter ESXXFX (where X's are letters or numbers) are best suitable for freight duties because of their lower top speed. Inspite of this the "U" series vcan be found on freight traffic and the "F" series in serious passenger traffic use. Since both are highly modular designs, numerous adaptations are easy to install. Older models with different design (ES64P) as well as the Eurorunner family for diesels also exist. The Eurosprinter F-family will be supplemented by additional model Vectron giving new competitive edge against the competiting Traxx-family by Bombardier. The Vectron will debut at Innotrans 2010 in Berlin this year. We will create a new Vectron page in the near future. 
Common components and equipment The
success of the product lines is based on common modular components.
Many of these advanced like the steering structure for the wheel on
bogies as an option. 
| Created for 4rail.net by Ilkka Siissalo and John McKey. Pictures by Ilkka Siissalo, John McKey and Hannu Peltola.  Also in this section  Traxx family of locomotives by Bombardier has been very successfull in Europe. Take a look at the 4rail.net Traxx Locomotives Page! Also in this section Traxx family of locomotives by Bombardier has been very successfull in Europe. Take a look at the 4rail.net Traxx Locomotives Page!  Eursprinter families Taurus (above) and Eurosprinter freight (below) by Siemens Mobility have also been a great success with over thousand units sold in Europe alone.   General Electric ES44AC/DC locomotives Page. The newest in state of the art product line. These locomotives are built to handle even the toughest routes, trains and handling while providing comfortable environment for the train personnel.  General Electric C44-9W/AC4400 locomotives Page. The previous generation with around 5000 units built! Durable and popular locomotive for heavy duties.  Russian railroads RZD employs an incredible 1, 3 million people! Take a look at the locomotive types of the east!  The Re460 is a popular locomotive originating from the Lok2000 program of Switzerland. Design by Pininfarina further helped to spread this high quality type. Last of the locomotives were built by Bombardier and later the production replaced by now highly popular Traxx platform.  JT42/Class66 is one of the most common diesel locomotive types in Europe. Look at the Class 66 Page to find out more about the success. Guides  Train Recognition guide (now in construction) will help you recognize around 300 of the most common locomotive, EMU and DMU types!  High Speed Section of the 4rail.net brings you the latest and the history of the over 50 most common super high speed and high speed trains. In this area there are always interesting things going on. On Super High Speed  Super High Speed News provides you the newest happenings and trends in the super fast railroading.  A TGV and AGV Theme Page provides information on these most succesfull super high speed trains. 
Brand new TGV-POS's pose in Paris Gare du Nord for the camera. Almost brand new...the locomotives are new, while the coaches are from the TGV-Reséau sets. Single story trains of 320 km/h serve well the limited numbers of passengers between France and Germany. once the volumes pick up, it's guaranteed that the double decked coaches will be swapped to these units. Picture by Sanna Siissalo 2008. A Thalys PBKA number 4243 boarding in Paris-GNO. As 40% more passengers are expected to travel the Thalyses within next 3 years, seventh daily return trip between Paris and Amsterdam will be added beginning March 2008. Picture by Sanna Siissalo 2008. | ||
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