| Class Ae 8/14 Electric Locomotive, Road Number 11852
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) class Ae 8/14 Landilok heavy double electric locomotive. Dark green basic paint scheme. Version with 2 pantographs. Sleeve buffers with rectangular buffer plates. Locomotive road number 11852. The locomotive looks as it did at the start of the Seventies.
Source: www.maerklin.de
Road number Ae 8/14 11852 was the third of the large double locomotives built for heavy service on the Gotthard. It was so to speak a further development of road number 11851, whose running gear and drive – apart from the higher performance – were adopted. The streamlined locomotive body was new, of lightweight construction to compensate for the heavier weight of the electrical equipment. The locomotive was presented at the Swiss Provincial Exhibition in 1939, hence the nickname Landilok. With a performance of 8,170 kilowatts – around 11,000 horsepower – for a long time it was the most powerful locomotive in the world, and it was used almost exclusively on the Gotthard. In 1971, the locomotive suffered a cable fire while running in the old Gotthard tunnel. It was damaged so much in this fire that it was not worth repairing. The locomotive was at any rate made visually presentable again and from time to time it is exhibited at the Swiss Transportation Museum in Lucerne. It presently belongs to the foundation SBB Historic. |
