DRG Class E 16

The electric locomotives E 16 series ( 1968: 116 series ) have been procured by the Bavarian Group Administration for the German State Railroad Company and were designed for high-speed trains.

History

The locomotives were first referred to in accordance with the Bavarian type scheme for electric locomotives with ES 1 before going to E 16 were in the DR numbering plan by 1927. The very first series ( E16 01-10 ) in 1926, the second ( E 16 11-17) 1927 delivered. The third, revised series ( E16 18-21) in 1932 and 1933, handed over to the German Reichsbahn.

E 16 11 and E 16 13 were lost in the war, E 16 12 was retired after an accident in 1967. With the introduction of the series of DB schemes as of 1 January 1968, the remaining 18 machines of the series E 16 were re-drawn in the 116 series. Between 1973 and 1980, the machine was then gradually turned off. On 31 January 1980 was retired with 116 009 the last locomotive of the 116 series.

Technology

Technical feature is the Buchli drive in the high-lying motors via an outboard gear drive only one side of the driving axles, the opposite side is not driven. Therefore, E has 16 two different view pages, at a one looks at the Buchli drive, while the other on the bare wire wheels. The E 16 is the only German locomotive class with the Buchli drive.

More technical feature is the control of the E 16, the manually operating a low-voltage slide switch mechanism (also called flat track selector ) triggers whose tap selector consists of contact pads that are assigned on a straight path. These contact pads 18 (corresponding to the 18 time speed steps ) are connected to each Trafoanzapfungen. A ' Schlitten' - main and auxiliary contact slides each time then the respective element from, the pre-contact always in contact with the next higher level. The resulting Trafowindungsschluss the half-wave is attenuated by the person sitting in the transformer tank transition resistors. For a nearly smooth start is possible. The driver could only stand for a few seconds in the half-wave accordingly however, since the transition resistors were otherwise too heated or even destroyed. However, since the voter is not a power switch, turn eight load switch ( because of the very high currents per traction motor a couple) that are arranged on the right and left of the slide, the current during the switching process by respectively opening and closing again from. This slide switch mechanism, which was first raised in this form in the E 32 to the application, was developed with the later high-voltage switching stations N28h and the N28i Einheitselloks on. As is known, was built there, however, the transition resistors air cooled to the transformer and the tap selector for better insulation against leakage currents closed under oil. Both developments BBC responsible.

The following locomotives of the series 116 are obtained:

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