Finnish electric locomotive Sr1 / Sähköveturi Sr1

Finnish electric locomotive Sr1
Sr1 is the first electric locomotive of Finland. Maximum speed is 140 km/h. It has continous power rating of 3100 kW, one hour output of 3280 kW and unoffical power rating (1500V wagon electricity counted too) of about 5000 kW. Electric supply is 25 kV 50 Hz ac overhead wire. Traction motors are 4 DC /820 kW/motor (offical), controlled by Strömberg-manufactured (former Finnish company, nowadays part of ABB) thyristor power rectifier drive.
It was ordered from USSR, mainly because of political reasons.
It is manufactured in Novochserkassk Electric Locomotive Works, former USSR.
First locomotives were delivered on year 1973. Last production model from factory was delivered on 1985.
Two additional locomotives were built at the Hyvinkää Machine Workshop in 1993 and 1995, number 3111 from spare parts and number 3112 from the original prototype locomotive (number 3000) that was never used.
The locomotives originally carried a dark red livery, with white stripes around and below the cab windows. The stripes were later replaced with yellow warning panels (resembling stylished wings) below the cab windows. From the early 1990s onwards this livery has been replaced by a white livery with red stripes. The nicknames for these locomotives are "Siperian susi" (Wolf of Siberia; it comes from the typical sound of Sr1, when it passes you can heard the "wolf crying" ; in Finnish slang "susi" can also mean a poorly manufactured object.
Two Sr1 class locomotives have been damaged beoynd repair, number 3048 in an accident in Jokela in 1996 and number 3089 in an accident in Jyväskylä in 1998.
There is a total 110 Sr1-class locomotives in service today.
More information of locomotive: http://www.kotimaki.com/rautatie/rstock/sr1.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Sr1

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• Sr1
• sähkö
• veturi
• elecrical
• locomotive
• electric
• 25
• kV
• AC
• DC
• traction
• Finland
• 140
• km/h

[Koseiko2009]

I shall try again! (For some reason on some clips, I can't seem to add postings here on Youtube)! Beautifl trains! I hope to ride next year. PLEASE do NOT "modernise" with window tinting (an international virus that has ruined many railways) and do keep the electrification! Absolutely beautiful rolling stock that is disappearing with many new European "modernisation" projects. This is Europe as I know it! Don't allow such to be destroyed!!! Last bastion of beauty! Thanks.

[Kyosuke1989]

Electrification is still continuing in Finland.. But the first Sr1's are going to be replaced on 2015.

[juasha]

I just wonder what will they be replaced with... These are very reliable locomotives and my favourites as well. I hope that some day I will be driving one of these =)

[Kyosuke1989]

Well, i think the most favorable option is Siemens Eurosprinter ES64U...

[bum291]

I would also like them to replaced by Eurosprinters, since they have good reliability and experience. But I think the Alstom PRIMA II is more probable since Alstom already made broad gauge an option and they want to sell it to us, they (Alstom) even said in in an interview.

[Kyosuke1989]

Or even more probable, VR Ltd has relations with Bombardier Transportation... TRAXX may be the one.

[finkako86]

The smell of fresh timber at a North-Karelian cargo yard mixes to the ever fascinating odour of the crosstie pitch on a warm, cloudless July day. Moraine sand is burning my feet. A Sr1 comes by, and attaches to a multi-car train of timber. As the Siberian Wolf pulls away, the experience is climaxed by the sound of the powerful cooling fans spinning up as the train gains speed.. *WHHHHRRRRoooomm*

A gentle wind from the cars caresses my face.

Ahh, that's the Finland of my sweetest memories.. <3

[robmasterman]

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[moptim]

@markskise These were built some 30-40 years ago in the former Soviet Union, although these feature many Finnish made parts as well.

[moptim]

THE beautiful locomotive :)

[MrJunafani]

Hyvä video, ei voi olla tykkäämättä.

[markskise]

Hmmm This soumi sr1 train loco is building in russia... for soumi?

[AkaVirr]

beautiful!

[Master59682]

mistä tiiet olla tuolla kuvaamas, katokko vaan aikataulujen mukaan vai näkeekö jostain reaaliajassa missä junat kulkee??

[HellKnight93]

electric soviet :D

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