Power type Diesel-electric Build date 2010 - present UIC class Bo'Bo' | Total produced 3 (as of March 2012) | |
Gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) | ||
The Vossloh DE 18 is a Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive. It is the first new diesel-electric locomotive to be built in Kiel since production of the DE 1002 ended in 1993. Up to 60% of the components are shared with the diesel-hydraulic G 18.
Operations
The prototype locomotive was shown together with the smaller, diesel-hydraulic G 12 on InnoTrans 2010. The launch customer for the DE 18 was BASF, ordering 2 DE 18 locomotives for services at its plants in December 2011.
References
Vossloh DE 18 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA