BR 145
The BR 145 is an electric loco from Germany in Train Sim World. Another DLC brings it to 3 routes.
Picture: Expert DB BR 145, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
With another DLC
Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: BR 145 Expert, DB BR 145 Expert, Expert DB BR 145.
In these DLCs: Expert DB BR 145.
Expert version: Expert DB BR 145 (a separate, more detailed DLC to drive).
Official manual: Expert DB BR 145.
From Dovetail's store page
- BR 145 electric locomotive in DB red and RBH blue liveries
- All new Expert features including Expert Coupling
- True to life PZB data entry with new automatic Bremszettel in the cab which helps calculate PZB data
The real thing
A Bo-Bo electric locomotive built by Adtranz at the end of the 1990s, the freight version for DB Cargo. Its passenger sister is the Class 146. Both led to the later Traxx locomotives.
- Built by: Adtranz (Wikipedia)
- Built: 1997-2002 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: Freight versions:103, Passenger versions:31 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: DB Cargo, DB Regio, Wil–Kreuzlingen railway line, SBB Cargo (Wikidata)
- Top speed: Freight version: 140 km/h (87 mph), Passenger version: 160 km/h (99.4 mph) (Wikipedia)
- Power: 4.2 MW (5,632 hp) (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: Bo′Bo′ (Wikipedia)
- Power type: Electric (Wikipedia)
Photo: Thomas Wolf (Der Wolf im Wald), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article DBAG Class 145 and 146 and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.