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unusual facts about SBB-CFF-FFS



Anthony James Barr

Assigned to work with the National Military Command Center, the information processing branch of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Barr rewrote and enhanced FFS, implementing three of its five major components: retrieval, sorting, and file update.

Bellinzona railway station

In 2008, the SBB Cargo facility at Bellinzona hit the headlines, when its workers went on strike, after SBB Cargo had prescribed rigorous reduction measures for the site.

Bellinzona railway workers strike of 2008

The Bellinzona plant of FFS Cargo, a state-owned company, was established in 1884 near the Bellinzona railway station and soon became an important repair facility for the Swiss rail network.

Bo-Bo-Bo

Other examples include New Zealand's DJ, EW and EF classes; the Eurotunnel Class 9 locomotives, which were themselves derived from the New Zealand EF class; the Swiss SBB Re 6/6 (Re 620); the Russia Railways EP10, and the South Korean Korail Class 8000.

CEVA rail

It will link the CFF route Lausanne – Geneva Cornavin – Geneva Airport and the SNCF route Geneva Cornavin – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine – Lyon with lines in the Haute Savoie serving Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, the valley of the Arve to St Gervais and Chamonix and from Annemasse to Annecy.

Cult Awareness Network

The CAN predecessor, Citizen's Freedom Foundation ("CFF"), was founded in the wake of the 1978 Jonestown mass murder-suicide, and was run for a time by Patricia Ryan, the daughter of US Congressman Leo J. Ryan (D-Millbrae, California), who died from gunfire while investigating conditions at the Jonestown cult compound in Guyana.

FFS2

FFS2, Unix File System, Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS

Forensic accounting

In other countries, some forensic accountants are also Certified Fraud Examiners, Certified Public Accountants with AICPA's Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) Credentials, Chartered Accountants (CA), Certified Management Accountants (CMA) or Chartered Certified Accountants.

Garcia-class frigate

All DEs, DEGs, and DERs were reclassified as FFs, FFGs, or FFRs on June 30, 1975 by the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification.

Krzysztof Starnawski

Krzysztof Starnawski (born 1968) is a Polish technical and cave diver and International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD), Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS), French Federation of Speleology (FFS) diving instructor.

Luino railway station

Luino is a frontier station between the Italian network, managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, and the Swiss network, managed by SBB-CFF-FFS.

Marshall Kirk McKusick

More recently, he implemented soft updates, an alternative approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage, in FFS, and a revised version of UFS known as "UFS2".

Nicolas Perrin

In summer 2007, Perrin became interim CEO of SBB Cargo following the departure of Daniel Nordmann.

NPZ

SBB-CFF-FFS RBDe 560, a Swiss push-pull trainset, generally known as the Neuer Pendelzug (New Commuter Train)

SBB Cargo

In summer 2010, SBB Cargo ordered 30 new two-axle hybrid locomotives (type Eem 923 Hybrid) from Stadler Winterthur AG to replace the Bm 4/4 shunting locomotives and various three-axle shunting locomotives used for light freight duties for wagonload traffic, since the old locomotives no longer met current requirements in terms of age, cost-effectiveness and performance.

SBB Vukovi Beograd

On 13th March 2012, the biggest Serbian cable network Serbia Broadband became the main sponsor, and the team changed its name to SBB Vukovi Beograd.

SBB-CFF-FFS Ae 4/7

In 1960, four Ae 4/7 (10948–10951) got a wider pantograph compatible to ÖBB standards, so that they could run international trains from St. Margrethen via Bregenz to Lindau.

SBB-CFF-FFS Ae 4/8

The total weight of the locomotive of 127 t – incidentally the same as the one of the later built Ae 4/7 – lead to a total weight of 18.6 t at the drive-wheels.

Beside the Be 3/5 12201, Be 4/6 12301, Be 4/6 12302 und coupling rods the SBB procured the Be 2/5 prototype locomotive with fully spring-loaded drives.

The roster of 1927 included – together with two Ae 4/7s – two fast train pairs Basle – Zürich and back with a daily performance of 416 km.

SBB-CFF-FFS Be 3/5

Intended to provide experience with electric traction, the locomotive was intended, along with Be 4/6 12301, Be 4/6 12302 and Gotthardbahn (Gotthard railway).

SBB-CFF-FFS Be 4/6 12301

But technically the locomotive was much more complicated than their sisters Be 4/6 12302 and Be 4/6 12303-12342.

For gaining experience for ordering electrical locomotives this locomotive should – as her three sisters Be 3/5 12201, Be 4/6 12302 and Gotthardbahn (Gotthard railway).

SBB-CFF-FFS Ce 6/8 I

The locomotive body was almost identical to the one of the Be 4/6 12302.

For gaining experience for ordering electrical locomotives this locomotive should – as her three sisters Be 3/5 12201, Be 4/6 12301 and Be 4/6 12302 – have been used for services on the Gotthardbahn (Gotthard railway).

These tubes were the main part of the very distinctive appearance of the locomotive as the Be 4/6 12302 and their successors Be 4/6 12303-12342.

The stepping switch transmitted the traction current to the motors which were connected in series circuit.

SBB-CFF-FFS RBDe 560

The Chemin de fer Pont Brassus (PBr) has never possessed its own locomotives, but has always subcontracted operation to the SBB, which guarantees through service between VallorbeLe Pont (SBB) and the PBr route Le Pont-Le Brassus in the Vallée de Joux.

SBB-CFF-FFS Re 460

The MTR also operates two Re 460 variants for its cross-boundary service to Guangdong from Hong Kong to Guangzhou.

Despite opposition from some quarters, the money that could be earned swayed the decision and the first such locomotive, Re 460 015 was unveiled in 1994 in Agfa livery.

Stadler Rail

the Eem 923, a hybrid electro-diesel shunting locomotive built for Swiss Federal Railways

Transports Publics Fribourgeois

Bulle is the centre of operations with depot, workshops and connection to the standard gauge railway to Romont, on the SBB line between Bern and Lausanne.

Unix File System

Marshall Kirk McKusick, then a Berkeley graduate student, optimized the BSD 4.2's FFS (Fast File System) by inventing cylinder groups, which break the disk up into smaller chunks, with each group having its own inodes and data blocks.

William Tell Express

At Flüelen station, passengers transfer to an SBB train, which takes the Gotthard line up the Reuss Valley and through the Gotthard Tunnel.

Zürich Hauptbahnhof

In 2007, the SBB and Deutsche Bahn entered into a station partnership between the Zürich HB and the Berlin Hauptbahnhof to promote knowledge sharing between operators of similarly-sized stations.


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