Description
Electric locomotive Re 420 505 of the BLS Lötschbergbahn.
1st construction series of the Re 4/4 II
Former SBB locomotive
Filigree single-arm pantograph
In digital operation with separately switchable headlights/taillights, driver's cab and engine room illumination
Z21 driver's cab available
In December 2004, SBB sold the locomotives Re 4/4 11110, 11117, 11119, 11123, 11137 and 11142 to BLS, which renumbered the locomotives as Re 420 501-506. A year later, SBB also took over locomotive 11107 and the prototypes Re 4/4 11102-11106, renumbering them 420 507-512. As the locomotives were urgently needed, they were painted in SBB's base colours for the first few years. Emblems and chrome lettering were all removed and replaced by simple silver decals. Gradually, the Re 420s were painted in the BLS corporate colours and also received the Omega logo, after the RM (Regional Mittellandbahn) was taken over. Re 420 505, formerly Re 4/4 11137, ran in green livery until 2009, when it was painted in the new BLS corporate colours.
- Coupling: NEM shaft 362 with close coupling mechanism
- Minimum radius: 358 mm
- Flywheel: yes
- Number of driven axles: 3
- Number of axles with traction tyres: 1
- Article number: 7520110
- Scale: H0
- Epoch: V
- Railway Company: BLS
General data
- Head light: Light changeover true to the Swiss original.
- LED head light: yes
- Additional light function: yes
- Interior lighting: Yes, LED, Digital switchable, Driver's cab lighting
- Control: AC
- Interface: Electrical interface for traction units PluX22
- Digital decoder: PluX22
- Sound: yes
- Buffer capacitor: yes
Electrical
- Length over buffer: 171 mm
Measurements