The
SNCF Class BB 37000
"Prima" 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 are currently being built by
Alstom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling, and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, Av ...
. These locomotives are the triple-voltage version of the
Class BB 27000. Sixty of these locomotives, numbered 37001–37060, have been ordered by
Fret SNCF
SNCF Logistics was the division of the SNCF group responsible for freight transportation and logistics.
The division included the activities of: Geodis (and subsidiaries), general land transport and logistics; Fret SNCF the national rail freigh ...
for international freight traffic.
37007 was destroyed in the
Zoufftgen train accident on 11 October 2006.
Names
* 37039 -
Custines/
Böbingen
Image:SNCF Class 37000.JPG, 437020 passing through Lyon Vaise station.
Alstom Prima electric locomotives
Bo′Bo′ locomotives
37000
1500 V DC locomotives
15 kV AC locomotives
25 kV AC locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 2004
Multi-system locomotives
Standard gauge electric locomotives of France
Freight locomotives
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