Kraków 2024-01-18  NEWAG ET43-005 Dragon 2 electric freight locomotive. Newag Dragon is a family of six-axle electric locomotives designed to pull heavy freight trains weighing up to 4,500 tons. Dragon, or “Smok,” is the popular trade name for this locomotive. Dragon represents a new standard among freight locomotives, particularly suited to Polish conditions. The E6ACT…

Bydgoszcz 2025-07-10 Pesa Gama 111ED Diesel-Electric Locomotives. The Pesa Gama is a family of electric and diesel locomotives built since 2012 by PESA Bydgoszcz in Poland. The locomotives are built as diesel, electric, and diesel-electric locomotives. By 2022, a total of over 50 locomotives had been built in three versions: diesel, electric, and hybrid, meaning…

Knurów 2025-06-22 Electric locomotives type 207E Edgar. Conversion of locomotives from electric to diesel or vice versa is not the norm, but it is done. Usually the reason is economics and politics. A large market is the modernization of old locomotives without their conversion. The leader on the Polish market in this field is the…

Kraków 2025-06-17 Electric Locomotive EU07-052. At the end of the 50s, electrification on Polish railways was already progressing rapidly. Electric locomotives were needed for passenger and freight trains. First, Swedish locomotives were purchased, which in Poland were designated EP03. The locomotive was manufactured by Allmann Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget and bore the designation ASEA E150. In…

Bydgoszcz 2024-03-14 Electric Locomotives PESA Gama. 2024 The PESA Gama electric locomotive is a good return of Polish manufacturers to the construction of locomotives in Poland, which were designed by Polish engineers. After a difficult 90 years of political transformation (without lustration and decommunization), two large manufacturers of rolling stock appeared on the Polish market;…

Kraków 2025-02-28 Electric tram and electric locomotive. Trams interest us as much as they have to do with railways. It can be said that the tram is the forerunner of the electric locomotive. However, this development of railway technology was not that simple. The electric tram is a means of urban transport that revolutionized the…

Kraków 2025-02-27 Post-war electrification in PKP. In Poland, the situation after World War II was bad. Poland was taken over by communists and dependent on Moscow. It was difficult to rebuild the Polish Railway Industry, and the reconstruction of the Warsaw Railway Junction in particular was slow. A statement by one of the Polish communists…

Kraków 2025-02-24 First electric locomotives in Poland at PKP. In the chapter – Electric traction in Poland in PKP. 2021. – we discussed why we have a 3 kV DC power supply in PKP. After the change of power in Poland, on December 13, 2023, the new government abolished the CPK (Central Communication Port) program.…

Kraków 2024-12-07 Siemens Vectron. Photo description: Double pantographs are visible on the roof. Photo description. Siemens Vectron X4E-794 Electric Locomotive with InterCity 3600 WYSPIAŃSKI train Przemyśl Główny – Wrocław Główny. Siemens Vectron is a family of locomotives derived from the Siemens EuroSprinter electric locomotive family. Siemens Vectron are locomotives designed to pull freight and passenger…