Roco 62694 - Electric Locomotive EL18

Prototype: Electric locomotive series 16 of the El Norwegian State Railways (NSB). BB wheel arrangement. Operating mode: approx 2005th Applications: passenger and freight trains.

Model: Finely detailed design in red and gray paint with a 3-light headlights and 2 red lights. Changed operating point. Length over buffers 212 mm.

Charlie's Info: Mountain Railway: The railway line to Bergen with the Norwegian capital, Oslo, combines, is considered with certainty as one of the most beautiful railway routes in Scandinavia, and its construction was to open in 1906 as an engineering feat. No fewer than 182 tunnels, the longest is 10 300 m long and had over 300 bridges along the 470 km stretch will be built. The weather, the remoteness of the course route and the hard gneiss rocks, which were driven in, laboriously hand-cuts and tunnels, contributed their share of that already during the construction of the railway line to the legend. The railway crosses Europe's largest mountain plateau, Hardangervidda, and runs at 100 km above the tree line, which requires expensive Lawinenverbauungen urgent. Up to now the route will be improved in order to achieve both a higher winter safety, as well as the travel time from the current to reduce to 6.5 hours. To 1957 came at the demanding circuit steam locomotives are used, which were replaced by diesel engines, was completed in 1964, the electrification of 15 kV and 16 2 / 3 Hz. Often seen rolling stock on the Bergen Railway is an electric locomotive EL 18 of the series of the Norwegian State Railways (NS) treated with modern intercity carriages on the hook, from which locals and tourists looking to the beautiful landscape of Norway