Bombardier Transportation presented its new product platform for the locomotive sector.
Bombardier Transportation presented its new product platform for the locomotive sector at the Transport Logistic trade fair in Munich. Alongside the BOMBARDIER TRAXX AC3 locomotive, which is powered by alternating current, the product platform is now complete with the introduction of new BOMBARDIER TRAXX MS3 (multi system) and DC3 (direct c rrent) locomotives.
The propulsion systems prototypes of the new locomotives, both multisystem and direct current (DC), will be developed at Trápaga’s factory, in Basque Country, in a new expression of the Bombardier’s Transportation confidence in the Trápaga’s factory manufacturing excellence centre of the group in the world.
RENFE currently has 100 locomotives belonging to the Bombardier TRAXX platform (series 253), whose propulsion systems were developed at Trápaga’s factory. The TRAXX family locomotives have been operating in Spain for a long time in both the Atlantic and Mediterranean corridors, which has contributed to demonstrate to the European ope- rators, the maturity and experience of Bombardier in the manufacture of this type of vehicles.
Compared to similar locomotives in their class, the new locomotives will be able to pull one carriage more and their degree of efficiency will be 1.9% higher. This means that operators can save around 170,000 euro over the locomotive’s 30-year service life. In particular, the features of the MS3 and DC3 locomotives are derived from the TRAXX AC3 locomotive, of which more than 280 have been sold to date.