... I forwarded your observation and a link to your pictures to an other Swiss forum, but so far I have only received confirmation that an extensive narrow...
. Hi all, I am updating some notes I wrote on Ae6/6 workings. I am seeking information on current workings of Ae6/6, but would like to ask the question in a...
On 29 August 2008 a contract was signed in the middle of the Rhine bridge between Lustenau (AT) and Widnau (CH), handing over the railway of the Rhine...
... 11442 stabled at Luzern (seen from the ZB line - yard the other side from the shed) and 11505 at Rotkreutz on a train - both this evening - Wed 3rd Sept. ...
... I have posted another photograph of the remains, this time looking in the opposite direction, and think there may be evidence of a "trackbed" heading...
... I am sad to hear that the Holcim railway has closed. It always made an interesting morning to photograph its operation in its rather unique setting. Are...
... The "little narrow gauge railway running at right angles to the main SBB lines" actually _is_ the Holcim railway that was closed. Markus, Gürbetal...
Sorry, I thought the works with its standard gauge lines was the infrastructure under discussion. Still don`t know enough about standard gauge in Switzerland!...
... I have a feeling that it was 1949 set by the American Bureau of standards. I think the best place to look would be the Institute of Electrical Engineering...
... From: Markus <guerbetaler@... "Have you ever travelled in a SOB-FLIRT? I guess not, otherwise I wouldn't understand your stement" Markus, Gürbetal ...
... First: The "industrial" standard is 50 cycles per second, not 1000 Second: This standard already existed when railway electrification began. Third: The 16...
... Apart from your preferring trains with "true" locomotives I can't see any point that is speaking against FLIRTs on the Voralpen Express. A little...
... Sorry I went off at a tangent talking about power control timing frequencies. The 16.6Hz frequency of the traction power supply was chosen by Dr Hans Behn...
... This is a very unfamiliar counting. Sure, it is exactly 1000 per minute, but I never claculated that! It is 16 2/3 for us, just that! Markus, Gürbetal...
... This is what I think an my first reaction, when I heard that there is a plan to put FLIRTs in the Voralpen Express was exactly this. But after many...
... At that time, BLS was opening with 15 kV 16 2/3 Hz and Spiez - Frutigen had already worked like that since 1910. Also in 1913 RhB openend the Engadin line...
... As I mentioned in another message it should be 1000 cycles per minute ... In Europe and in North America there are two frequency standards. The Commercial...
I am going to have about four free days around the middle of October. My meeting will end on Thursday evening so I will have Friday through Monday to myself....
... The US and Canada had pretty much settled on 25 Hz and 60 Hz as defacto "standards", based on Telsa's original work on AC power reticulation systems,...
... 25 Hz was a quite frequent choice for European elctrifications in the early years: 1903 KPEV Berlin (trial) 1905 SJ Tmoteboda (Sweden, trial) 1907 LPB...
... 1912 Preussen, Baden and Bayern signed a contract named "Übereinkommen betreffend die Ausführung elektrischer Zugförderung" where the standard of 15 kV...
... I can now understand, why we had some misunderstandings at the start of this thread: We call 50 Hz the industrial frequency (Industriefrequenz) while 16...
... October. ... You don't say where you are starting from. Personally I would be taking a last look at the Gotthard with 100% loco hauled, before the dreaded ...
From 08.09.08 to 19.10.08 the following trains will be loco and coaches due to a shortage of ETR470 units: 151 0709 Zurich-Milano C 1047 152 1738 Milano...
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