The Renfe Class 269 is a class of
electric locomotive
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives with on-board fuelled prime movers, such as diesel engines or ga ...
s operated by
Renfe in Spain. They were built by
CAF and
Macosa
Stadler Rail Valencia SAU is a Spanish company, mainly producing products for the railway industry, subsidiary of Stadler Rail.
History MACOSA
The Company was founded in 1947 with the name Material y Construcciones S.A. (or MACOSA) by the merge ...
under license from
Mitsubishi
The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 187 ...
.
Variants
Multiple variants of the Class 269 exist:
* 269.0: 80/140 km/h freight variant
* 269.2: 100/160 km/h variant for intermodal and passenger trains
* 269.5: 90/160 km/h variant for intermodal and freight trains
* 269.7: variant for intermodal trains
* 269.9: variant used for overnight services
* Four rebuilt locomotives with streamlined cabs for operation
Technical specifications
The locomotives are equipped with
monomotor
A monomotor is a train design where a single traction motor powers two or three axles in the same bogie. Conventional bogie design involves either having one motor for each axle, or having one or more axles unpowered. The monomotor design causes th ...
bogies, which have two gears.
They use
rheostatic braking
Dynamic braking is the use of an electric traction motor as a generator when slowing a vehicle such as an electric or diesel-electric locomotive. It is termed " rheostatic" if the generated electrical power is dissipated as heat in brake gri ...
.
History
The locomotives were introduced in 1973. A total of 265 locomotives have been built.
Four Class 269 locomotives were sold to
Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado
Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (abbreviated EFE, lit. ''State Railway Company'') is the national railway and the oldest state-run enterprise in Chile. It manages the infrastructure and operating rail services in the country.
Track gauge ...
(EFE), the Chilean national rail operator, in 2003.
Further withdrawn Class 269 locomotives went on sale in 2010.
References
External links
Locomotora eléctrica 269.0/1 - Renfe Alquiler
{{Renfe locomotives
Electric locomotives of Spain
Mitsubishi locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1973
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