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Info on Railroading in Sweden Sweden is a highly interesting railroading country. The beginnings of the railroad era saw numerous sustainable railroad businesses. This period was followed by nationalization, but the freight railroads have by now taken the other way and by now the operating environment is far from monolithic single railroad operator model. Sweden has gone far in opening it's rail networks to both private and public operators. As a result there are now dozens of operators for freight and local traffic and much of the rolling stock is of the same large selection found anywhere within the EU countries. The last monopoly stronghold for the SJ was the long distance passenger traffic, but even this fortress is now invaded by partnership of Veolia (providing coaches) and Hector rail (providing traction power). In general this heterogenous competition environment is in strong contrast with neighboring country Finland, where no start for even a second railway operator ever seems to happen. Both countries belong to the European Union, so the rules of competition and environment are pretty much the same, Finland even being more private enterprise minded.  123
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Rolling Stock of Sweden
Sweden has an interesting collection of both enormously powerful and small locomotives, both famous older equipment built in Sweden and newer Paneuropean rolling stock from the industry giants. Swedish Electric
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Some of the subjects  High Speed Rolling Stock...
Rc6 locomotives...
Regina / X50 class EMU's...
Pictures of the High Speed Rolling Stock in Sweden While Sweden currently lacks the super high speed trains, the country has seen days of national pride on the tilting (at the time) high speed unit trains and RC-locomotives some of which were license sold to Amtrak in the U.S.A.!  I remember sitting on the station south of Stockholm watching some X2's zoom by the station platform obviously just about full speed! Makes you wonder about the safety with all the passengers on the station. Other X2's were stopping and I remember on one occasion seeing the engineer smoking a cigarette in the cabin with windows open. The rules for no smoking existed, but with no sanctions with the Swedish SJ (State railways) these were obviously of little effect. (Never seen anyone else smoking inside the drivers cabin in the Western Europe before or after.)   To the top of the page
Pictures for the Rc6 Locomotives in Sweden Swedish locomotive industry created some very famous electric traction power. Out of these, the RC6 was most successfull, with numerous units built or converted to this class. This type variant was even licence built in the U.S. in the 1970's-80's, still powering many of the Amtrak trains as AEM7 (the local nickname is "meatball"). Electric power lives long compared to the average diesels and the Swedish unit have gone through a numerous reapintings and some modifications already.  Here is an example of the RC6 locomotive under the Stockholms Central - the city center railway station. The train switching personnel has just finished coupling the locomotive with traditional long distance coaches. The locomotive has 4 axles and can be found in numerous color variants from themes years earlier! We will have pictures of the others on this page later. Another RC6 locomotive number 1359 painted to the interesting black livery. The editor does not know any other country that would had chosen the faded colors of black or gray to the color that all the rolling stock seems to be painted. Since Sweden is a far northern country, this is doubly surprising choise. Brighter colors would look nicer in the northern semidarkness. The picture above and below from Uppsala by Sanna Siissalo 2008.  To the top of the page
The X50's class Regina trains of the local operators We will start our review with pictures of the Upplands Localtrafiks Regina trains. These tilting small EMU's can currently found around Swedish smaller cities connecting them to a network by rail.  Upptåget Regina X50-2 (2 unit trains, there
are 2 and 3 unit Reginas in Sweden) approaching the Uppsala city
railway station. Unit 9032 of the Upplands Lokaltrafic Fllet of class X50-2 Reginas is approaching the Uppsala station under heavy construction as the old time is giving way to the newer times. Below another unit 9054 on approach. Both pictures by Sanna Siissalo 2008.  234...
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Sources: General sources, Todays Railways Europe, Svenska Lok och Motorvagnar 2006, The Net, ... |
Best Viewed with Mozilla Firefox! Click the pictures to see the larger version! Pictures from Aspen Sweden  The SJ X2 train is tilting towards the curve leading to Aspen in the Middle of Sweden, slightly north of Stockholm. Pictures by Lorenz Schmuckli 2008.  X2 locomotive in the current livery approaching the Aspen station.  X2 zooms by Aspen station. Pictures by Lorenz Schmuckli 2008. Another X2 unit at Uppsala station . Pictures by Sanna Siissalo 2008.  More pictures to follow later... |
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