ASEA electric locomotive (Ferrocarriles Vascongados, early version)

Specifications
Specifications
Configuration:;
• AAR	B-B
• UIC	Bo′Bo′
Gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Length	10.58 m (34 ft 9 in)
Width	2.49 m (8 ft 2 in)
Height	3.4 m (11 ft 2 in)
Axle load	10,750 kg (23,700 lb)
Loco weight	43,000 kg (94,799 lb)
Electric system/s	1,500 V DC overhead line
Current pickup(s)	Pantograph
Loco brake	Vacuum

Type and origin
Type and origin
Power type	Electric
Builder	ASEA, CAF
Build date	1931–1932
Total produced	4

ASEA electric locomotive
ASEA electric locomotive
	Locomotive 11, preserved at the Basque Railway Museum
Power type
Type and origin
Power type	Electric
Builder	ASEA, CAF
Build date	1931–1932
Total produced	4
Configuration:;
Specifications
Configuration:;
• AAR	B-B
• UIC	Bo′Bo′
Gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Length	10.58 m (34 ft 9 in)
Width	2.49 m (8 ft 2 in)
Height	3.4 m (11 ft 2 in)
Axle load	10,750 kg (23,700 lb)
Loco weight	43,000 kg (94,799 lb)
Electric system/s	1,500 V DC overhead line
Current pickup(s)	Pantograph
Loco brake	Vacuum
Power output:;
Performance figures
Power output:;
• Continuous	530 kW (711 hp)
Operators
Career
Operators	Ferrocarriles Vascongados, FEVE, Euskotren
Delivered	1931
Retired	2016

The ASEA electric locomotive was an electric locomotive type originally operated by Ferrocarriles Vascongados in the Basque Country, Spain. When that company was absorbed by FEVE, it came to be known as the FEVE 4100 series. It was later operated by Euskotren.

History

Ferrocarriles Vascongados had bought ten Brown Boveri electric locomotives in 1927. These were insufficient to haul all the freight trains operated by the company, and thus four new locomotives were ordered to Swedish manufacturer ASEA. The mechanical parts were built by Spanish manufacturer CAF in Beasain. The first two locomotives were delivered in 1931, and the remaining two in 1932.^[2] Due to the company's liquidity problems, eleven of its steam locomotives had to be mortgaged.^[3] In 1950, the company bought from ASEA another three locomotives which were mechanically similar to the ones delivered in the early 1930s.

After the original operator was absorbed into FEVE in 1972, the locomotives were renumbered as 4101 to 4104. It was during this time that the locomotives had their original axleboxes changed by new ones manufactured by Timken, the most significant overhaul during their lifetime. After the establishment of Euskotren in 1982 (known at the time as ET/FV), they were transferred to the new company. They were mostly retired from service in 1989, when two of the locomotives were scrapped and a third was stored for preservation.^[2] The fourth locomotive was refurbished with the addition of a Scharfenberg coupler and a Faiveley pantograph.^[4] It was in use as a shunter in the San Sebastián-Hendaye line until in 2016, when it was donated to the Basque Railway Museum.^[5]

Numbering and naming

The locomotives were named after mountains of the Basque Country. Their individual details are as follows.^[2]

FV No.	FEVE No.	Name	ASEA No.	Retired	Fate
11	4101	Ego-Arbitza	706	1989	Restored in 1995 by the Basque Railway Museum.
12	4102	Izarraitz	707	2016	Refurbished in 1989 for use as a shunter in the San Sebastián-Hendaye line. Donated to the Basque Railway Museum in 2016.^[5]
13	4103	Amo	708	1989	Scrapped.
14	4104	Mandoia	709	1989	Scrapped.

References

^ ^a ^b "Locomotora eléctrica 0015". EMSIME (in Spanish). euskadi.eus. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Olaizola, Juanjo (2001). Bilbo eta Donostia arteko trenaren material motorea / Material motor del ferrocarril de Bilbao a San Sebastián (in Spanish and Basque). Bilbao: Eusko Trenbideak Ferrocarriles Vascos , S.A. pp. 109–112. ISBN 84-920629-3-2.
^ Olaizola Elordi, Juanjo (2005). El ferrocarril de Amorebieta a Bermeo (PDF) (in Spanish and Basque). EuskoTren. p. 49. ISBN 8492062975. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
^ Salmerón i Bosch, Carles; Olaizola Elordi, Juanjo (1990). Eusko Trenbideak - Ferrocarriles Vascos: Historia eta teknika - Historia y técnica (in Spanish and Basque). Barcelona: Terminus. p. 117. ISBN 84-404-8322-8.
^ ^a ^b Euskotren - Memoria 2017 (PDF). gardentasuna.euskotren.eus (Report) (in Spanish and Basque). p. 51. Retrieved 28 June 2022.