Bombardier Presents First Multisystem Locomotive for SBB Cargo.News Editors/Business Editors MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004 Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Bombardier group. Bombardier Transportation is the world’s largest company in the rail equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin. (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :BBD BBD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Barbados Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. .A) (TSX:BBD.B) today presented its first multisystem locomotive for Switzerland. It is also the 34,000th locomotive to be built in Kassel since 1848. A total of 18 Bombardier(i) TRAXX(i) MS electric freight locomotives were ordered in May 2003 by Swiss Federal Railways. The locomotives are scheduled for delivery from October 2004 to March 2005. Designed both for AC and DC systems, they are to be used for freight services between Switzerland and Italy. "The multisystem locomotive presented today is an important milestone in the over 150-year history of locomotive manufacture at the Kassel site," said Edmund Schlummer, President, Locomotives & Freight, Bombardier Transportation. "We are providing our customer with an extremely modern product that will noticeably improve its competitive edge on trans-European rail freight services." The modular design In the context of systems engineering, modular design — or "modularity in design" — is an approach aiming to subdivide a system into smaller parts (modules) that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities. of the TRAXX MS locomotive enables it to be equipped with the very latest in high-performance electronics systems both for Switzerland's 15 kV AC network and Italy's 3 kV DC network. The MITRAC(i) lightweight propulsion system Noun 1. propulsion system - a system that provides a propelling or driving force system - instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a is very compact, and is setting standards in the economic consumption of energy. Both the Swiss and the Italian train protection systems are installed. This means that the multisystem locomotives meet all the requirements for cross-border freight services, particularly on the Bellinzona - Luino - Gallarate route. Due to the commonality that results from Bombardier's consistent platform strategy, the multisystem locomotive incorporates numerous standard parts, allowing its smooth integration into SBB SBB Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Railway) SBB Sports by Brooks (sports webblog) SBB Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil (Portugese: Bible Society of Brazil) Cargo's current fleet of 50 dual system freight locomotives supplied by Bombardier. This synergy effect allows SBB Cargo SBB Cargo is a subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) specialising in railfreight. Swiss Federal Railways is a former state-owned company that was transformed in 1999 into a joint-stock company under special legislation and divided up into three independent divisions: Passenger to reduce costs in the areas of maintenance and training. The 298 TRAXX locomotives currently in service in Germany and Switzerland now have a proven track record of well over 54 million kilometres. The guarantee exceptionally high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. levels and low costs for operation and maintenance. The development of the 15 kV AC locomotives, which have a top speed of 140 km/h and an output of 5.6 MW, has been carried out to a large extent at Bombardier's facilities in Oerlikon and Turgi (Switzerland). They will be built in Kassel and subsequently commissioned in Switzerland by Bombardier. The Kassel site was founded over 150 years ago by Carl Anton Henschel. The first locomotive to leave the factory - the "Dragon" - paved the way for the 34,000 steam, diesel and electric locomotives that have been produced since. Kassel also produced countless developments that have revolutionized the history of locomotive design and manufacture. In 1898, the company manufactured the world's first superheater su·per·heat tr.v. su·per·heat·ed, su·per·heat·ing, su·per·heats 1. To heat excessively; overheat. 2. passenger train locomotive with what was at that time an impressive power output. The first standard locomotive, a Class 02 four-cylinder superheater express compound locomotive A compound locomotive is a type of steam locomotive where steam is expanded in two phases.[1] Introduction The usual arrangement on a railway locomotive is that the steam is first expanded in one or two high-pressure (HP) , was also produced in Kassel, as were high and medium-pressure locomotives and condensing con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. locomotives. Express locomotives became a worldwide sensation in the 1930s achieving top speeds of up to 175 km/h and even 186 km/h. The 200 km/h mark was passed by the E 19 electric express locomotive, which was delivered in 1940. Its top speed of 225 km/h was not exceeded until 1970 by the now legendary E 03, travelling at 286 km/h. Then, at the beginning of the 90s, also built in Kassel, came the ICE power cars that were even faster. Last year, Bombardier's production facilities in Kassel built a total of 153 electric and diesel locomotives for the German and the international market. About Bombardier A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from regional aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2004, were $15.4 billion US and its shares are traded on the Toronto, Brussels and Frankfurt stock exchanges Frankfurt Stock Exchange The largest of Germany's eight securities exchanges, operated by Deutsche Borse AS. (BBD, BOM and BBDd.F). News and information are available at www.bombardier.com. (i)Trademark(s) of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries NOTE TO EDITORS: A photo is available on our Website at the following address: http://www.transportation.bombardier.com/photography.jsp http://www.transportation.bombardier.com |
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