Germany · Electric loco

BR 140

The BR 140 is an electric loco from Germany in Train Sim World. It comes with 2 routes.

Picture: on Frankenbahn: Stuttgart - Heilbronn, Dovetail Games.

Where you can drive it

Comes with

In the game

Names in Dovetail's lists: BR 140, DB BR 140.

In these DLCs: Frankenbahn: Stuttgart - Heilbronn, Neckartalbahn: Heidelberg - Neckarelz.

The real thing

A standard electric freight locomotive commissioned by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1955. It has been listed as Class 140 since the 1968 renumbering. 879 were built.

Built by: Krupp, Henschel, Krauss-Maffei, Siemens, AEG, BBC (Wikipedia)
Built: 21 March 1957–17 August 1973 (E40.11/139: 1959,1965) (Wikipedia)
Number built: 879 (Wikipedia)
Operators: Deutsche Bundesbahn, Deutsche Bahn (Wikipedia)
Top speed: 100 km/h (62.1 mph), later (110 km/h (68.4 mph)) (Wikipedia)
Power: 3700 kW (4,962 hp) (Wikipedia)
Wheel arrangement: Bo′Bo′ (Wikipedia)
Power type: electric (Wikipedia)
Safety systems: Sifa, PZB (Wikipedia)

Photo: RUNAWAYTRAIN, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

From the English Wikipedia article DB Class E 40 and Wikidata.

Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.