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MaK G 1204 BB
The MaK G 1204 BB is a four axle B'B' diesel-hydraulic locomotive with and off centre cab design built by MaK in Kiel, Germany. Eighteen of these light freight and shunting locomotives were built which were used mostly on German industrial railways, two units have worked for the Swiss Federal Railways and received the class designation ''Am 842''. History and design The class are development of the 1978 MaK G 1202 design; both locomotives have the same exterior dimensions but the G 1204 has a 1,120 kW MTU 12V 396 of slightly increased power over the MTU 12V 331 engine used in the G 1202. Operators Ruhrkohle AG operated 6 of the class, Wanne-Herner Eisenbahn und Hafen 2, NIAG 2, Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen 2, Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn 2, and Sersa of Switzerland 3, with one locomotive operating under a number of different companies. Two units originally working for Sersa were transferred to the Swiss Federal Railways in 1993 and operate as SBB Am 842.000 and SBB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maschinenbau Kiel
Maschinenbau Kiel GmbH designed, manufactured and marketed marine diesel engines, diesel locomotives and tracked vehicles under the MaK brand name. The three primary operating divisions of Maschinenbau Kiel GmbH were sold to different companies in the 1990s. Rheinmetall acquired the military vehicles division in 1990. Siemens acquired the locomotive manufacturing division in 1992. Siemens sold the locomotive division to the current owner, Vossloh, in 1998. Caterpillar Inc. acquired the marine diesel engine division in 1997. Both Vossloh and the marine diesel engine division of Caterpillar are still based in Kiel. Caterpillar continues to use MaK brand name on their products. The companies are major employers in Kiel. History Origins The companies origins can be traced back at least as far as 1918. With the Treaty of Versailles limiting arms production in Germany, the defence based industries in Kiel sought other markets. Kiel Deutsche Werke AG (DWK) was founded; producing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MaK Locomotives
Mak may refer to: People *Mak Dizdar (1917 - 1971), Bosnian poet *Muhammad Arshad Khan, Pakistani painter popularly known as "MAK" *Alan Mak (director) (born 1968), Hong Kong film director *Alan Mak (politician) (born 1984), British Member of Parliament *Alice Mak (cartoonist), Alice Mak, Chinese cartoonist and creator of McMug/McDull *Geert Mak, Dutch journalist, historian, and author *Róbert Mak, Slovak football player *Mai (Chinese surname), transliterated as "Mak" in Cantonese Places *Mak, Kardzhali Province, village in Bulgaria * Mak, Masovian Voivodeship, village in Poland * Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Museum in Vienna, Austria Other * The Mak language of Guizhou, China * The Mak language (Adamawa), Mak language of Nigeria * Ma. K., abbreviation for the science-fiction universe Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 * Maksutov telescope, catadioptric telescope invented by Dmitri Maksutov * MaK (Maschinenbau Kiel), German engineering firm in Kiel * Mouvement pour l'Autonomie de la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MaK G 1206
The Vossloh G1206 is a B'B' diesel hydraulic freight locomotive built in Kiel and used by several European railway operators including a SNCF specific variant the BB 461000 series. The design was created in the mid-1990s by Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK) for German coal supplier RAG Aktiengesellschaft and is a follow-on to the MaK G1205 locomotive class built as the SNCB Class 77. Production continued under Vossloh ownership of the Kiel plant In 2007 a shunting specific variant, the G1206-2 was created and began production. Four Caterpillar-engined locomotives hired from Angel Trains Cargo by Euro Cargo Rail were assigned to TOPS Class 21 due to their presence at times on the UK side of the channel tunnel. ECR assigned the codes FB1544 to FB1547 to these locomotives. History and design In the 1990s the de-monopolisation and liberalisation of the railways of member states of the European Union meant that private companies could access formerly state-owned track. With this came n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Stock Used By Swiss Federal Railways
The followling is an incomplete list of locomotives and multiple units used by the Swiss Federal Railways. Steam locomotives Steam railcars Electric locomotives Electric trainsets Electric railcars Diesel locomotives Diesel trainsets Battery-electric railcars Heavy shunters Light shunters Notes :1 Designations have changed over time :2 Numbers have changed over time :3 Numbers not continuous :4 Changes within one series :5 Not used any more, not yet used, or defined, but never used :6 Details have changed over time, this is the latest information :7 Today Zentralbahn :8 Classic Rail sold four of these locomotives to MThB :9 These locomotives were bought by the SBB-CFF-FFS Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usuall ... and leased to BLS Lötschbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sersa Group
Sersa Group is a Swiss railtrack construction and maintenance company. History Sersa (''Soudage électrique des rails S.A.'') was founded in 1948 in Neuchâtel by Arnold Schnyder as a rail track maintenance company operating on the rail system around Zurich, Switzerland. Arnold Schnyder's son Konrad took over the company and expanded the business to cover track infrastructure work throughout Switzerland, as well as establishing subsidiaries abroad. (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, Spain). Operations The company supplies services relating to rail track construction and renewals; including ballasted and slab track construction, catenary construction, and project management Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. Th .... Maintenance of track including ballast cleaning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen
The Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE) is a Celle based transportation company with railway network in North-eastern Lower Saxony around the Lüneburg Heath area of over 250 km. The OHE's main business is the transportation of freight through their own routes as well as the network of the Deutsche Bahn. Historically the company also operated passenger trains, which completely ended in 1977 after previous partial closures. After the de-monopolisation of the German railways in the 1990s the company re-entered the rail passenger market through the company NiedersachsenBahn which has a large stake in the company metronom In March 2007 the OHE became majority owned by Arriva Deutschland. History Formation In 1944 the OHE arose from the merger of several companies from the northeast area of Lower Saxony, its creation was not purely for economic reasons, but also being politically favourable to the national socialist Gau Osthannover government. The company was formed on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanne-Herner Eisenbahn Und Hafen
The Wanne-Herner Eisenbahn und Hafen GmbH (''literal:'' "Wanne and Herne railway and port company Ltd.") (abbr. WHE) is a railway and canal port operating company based around the Rhine-Herne Canal in the Ruhr area of Germany History and background The port's history begins in the first decade of the 20th century with the building of the Rhine-Herne Canal. On 14 July 1905 the company ''Kanalhafen Wanne-Gelsenkirchen-Land'' is born, with the aim of making a coal port for the surrounding mines on the canal. In 1913 the nearby town of Herne also participates in the project and the companies name is changed to ''Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Herne-Wanne mbH''Hafen Wanne-West Wanne west harbour ''route-industrielkultur.de'' The west harbour opened in 1914 and, a year later a narrow gauge railway ''Wanne-Gelse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTU Friedrichshafen
MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH is a German manufacturer of commercial internal combustion engines founded by Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl Maybach in 1909. Wilhelm Maybach was the technical director of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), a predecessor company of the German multinational automotive corporation Daimler AG, until he left in 1907. On 23 March 1909, he founded the new company, Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH (Aircraft Engine Manufacturing Corp), with his son Karl Maybach as director. A few years later the company was renamed to Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH (Maybach Engine Manufacturing Corp), which originally developed and manufactured diesel and petrol engines for Zeppelins, and then railcars. The Maybach Mb.IVa was used in aircraft and airships of World War I. The company first built an experimental car in 1919, with the first production model introduced two years later at the Berlin Motor Show. Between 1921 and 1940, the company produced various classic opulent vehicles. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruhrkohle AG
RAG AG, formerly Ruhrkohle AG, is the largest German coal mining corporation. The company headquarters are in Essen in the Ruhr area. The company was founded on 27 November 1968, consolidating several coalmining corporations into the Ruhrkohle AG. On 12 September 2007 as a result of restructuring, the business areas of chemicals A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wit ..., energy and real estate were transferred to the new business entity Evonik Industries AG. Today, Evonik Industries are majority owned by the ''RAG-Stiftung'' (English: ''RAG-Foundation''), which uses corporate profits to finance the costs that arise due to the former mining activities in the Ruhr region. The foundation plans on using about 220 million euro per year from 2019 to maintain abandoned coal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MaK G 1202
The MaK G 1202 BB is a four axle B'B' off-centre cab diesel-hydraulic locomotive built by Maschinenbau Kiel in Germany. Design and operators The locomotive is a light freight and shunting locomotive; twelve units were built for private railway operators in Germany including 3 for ''Rheinkalk GmbH'' (chalk and dolomite mineral company), 2 for ''Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen'', 2 for RAG, and the remainder on various short and medium term leases. See also *MaK G 1204 BB The MaK G 1204 BB is a four axle B'B' diesel-hydraulic locomotive with and off centre cab design built by MaK in Kiel, Germany. Eighteen of these light freight and shunting locomotives were built which were used mostly on German industrial railwa ..., similar design with MTU 396 engine replacing the MTU 331 engine References External links * *Images: {{MaK-Vossloh locomotives MaK locomotives Standard gauge locomotives of Germany Railway locomotives introduced in 1978 B-B locomotives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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