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unusual facts about NS Class 6400


NS Class 6400

On 24 September 2009 locomotives 6415 and 6514 were involved in a head on collision with an EMD 66 locomotive of ERS (No. 6616) near Barendrecht close to the point the line passes under the A15 motorway.


C-AKv coupler

Beginning in late 2009, eighteen DBAG Class 189 electric locomotives owned by DB Schenker were converted to C-AKv couplers, in order to handle 6,000 tonne iron ore trains from Rotterdam to the steel works at Dillingen in the Saarland, replacing the previous German class 151 double units and Dutch class 6400 triple units commonly used on these workings previously.

MaK / Vossloh G1206

Trix/Minitrix has also produced G1206 models in HO and N scales using operator's liveries' applied on similar models of MaK/Vossloh machines such as their reproductions of NS Class 6400, or MaK G 1205.

MaK DE 1002

The Eurotunnel Class 0001 and NS Class 6400 are related diesel electric developments of this type, with additional specific features for the railway customers.


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