From: s_tbk@ira.uka.de (Tobias Benjamin Koehler)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,rec.railroad,zer.t-netz.eisenbahn
Subject: <+> Ae 8/14 (Train ASCII Art)
Date: 24 Feb 1995 09:54:17 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Here are three impressive Swiss loco-monsters: the Ae 8/14 which  
were built for heavy trains over the Gotthard line. For better  
curve behaviour they had a special axle arrangement: the three  
central axles could move sidewards in the frame and the first  
and last two axles of each half were combined to special `Java  
trucks'. The locos were technically and optically different from  
each other: the 11801 had a Buchli drive, the 11851 and 11852  
had a Winterthur universal drive. The 11852 was the most  
powerful locomotive of the world, it was also lighter than the
other two and had a more streamlined carbody.
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                                    /"\
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  _|D|D|[|] [|]|### [|] [|]|[|]||[_]| [_] | ### |  [_]  |D|D|_
 | | | |###_[|]|____[|]____|###||###| ### |     |  ###  | | | |
=[H|-|_|___________________|---||-----[]--[]-----[]--[]-------]=
  //(_) \__/\__/(_)\__/\__/ (_)  (_) \__/\__/(_)\__/\__/ (_)\\
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<+> SBB CFF FFS Ae 8/14 No. 11801 (Brown Boveri Cie. 1932)
(1'A)'A1A(A1')'+(1'A)'A1A(A1')', 34 m, 246 t, 6470 kW, 100 km/h
in service until 1972, still working as museum locomotive
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   ________--__----_____=="==__..___\_/______----__--________
  _|D|D|[_]  [_]   [_]  [_]  _ ||    [_]  [_]   [_]  [_]|D|D|_
 | | | |"  ##  "###"  ##  " [_]||    "  ##  "###"  ##  "| | | |
=[H|---========================||========================-----]=
  //(_) \__/\__/(_)\__/\__/ (_)  (_) \__/\__/(_)\__/\__/ (_)\\
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<+> SBB CFF FFS Ae 8/14 No. 11851 (Oerlikon 1932)
(1'A)'A1A(A1')'+(1'A)'A1A(A1')', 34 m, 246 t, 6470 kW, 100 km/h
in service until 1972, fate unknown (scrapped?)
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                                    /"\
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   /|D|#[_]##[_]   [_]##[_]    ||    [_]##[_]   [_]##[_]# D \
  / |_|                        ||                            \
=(____----===============------||------===============----____)=
  //(_) \__/\__/(_)\__/\__/ (_)  (_) \__/\__/(_)\__/\__/ (_)\\
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<+> SBB CFF FFS Ae 8/14 No. 11852 (Oerlikon 1939)
(1'A)'A1A(A1')'+(1'A)'A1A(A1')', 34 m, 236 t, 8824 kW, 110 km/h
in service until 1972, now on display at Verkehrshaus Luzern

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