Bernina-Bahngesellschaft Ge 4/4 82
When BB Ge 4/4 82 and RhB Ge 4/ 4182 it is a Swiss DC locomotive that was built in 1928 for the then independent Bernina Railway and changed into their possession after the acquisition of the course by the Rhaetian Railway. Due to the external similarity to known as Crocodile locomotives machines of the type Ge 6 /6 I the Rhaetian Railway and Ce 6/8 II and III of the Swiss Federal Railways, this machine is also known as the crocodile of the Bernina Railway or just Bernina Crocodile.
History
The machine was delivered on 10 March 1928, the Bernina Railway (BB) to get on the narrow gauge route from St. Moritz, Pontresina on the Bernina Pass and Poschiavo to Tirano in Italy for use. There she received the operation number 82 Following the acquisition of the independent company by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) in 1944 was also the locomotive along with the rest of the BB- vehicles in their possession on.
The engine was rebuilt in 1946; their snowplow Stems were converted to normal stems. Due to changes in weight distribution had to be put in the Mitte of the bogies and the original eccentric pivot. This locomotive was 2 t lighter and 40 inches shorter. 1953 and 1962 the locomotive was badly damaged in accidents but rebuilt respectively. The machine was in 1961 by 82 renumbered 182 to the range 51-99 to make free for tractors. In 1977, the locomotive was scrapped and went to the Museum of Transport in Lucerne, Switzerland, where she remained until 1981. In 1984, she was by the French meter gauge railway St.Georges -de- Commiers - adopted La Mure. There, the engine was never put into operation because it had been found only after conversion that the constructed for only 1,000 volts DC locomotive could hardly be adapted to the local operating voltage of 2,400 volts. After a long shut-down outdoor convicted in 1999, the group Associazione 182 Club 1889 - a Grison Railway Club - the now badly damaged machine back to Switzerland to use them after a restoration as a nostalgic vehicle back on the Bernina Railway. The first test drive under its own power was held by the audit carried out on 28 May 2010. Since June 2010, the Bernina Crocodile is officially back in operation and will be in service for Museum special trips on the Bernina line.