Tags: Locomotive.
The NSB El 17 is a class of twelve electric locomotives built by Thyssen-Henschel and Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri (NEBB) for the Norwegian State Railways (NSB). The class was built in two batches the first delivered in 1982 and numbered 2221–2226 and the second delivered in 1987 and numbered 2227–2232. The traction system of the El 17 was based on the DB Class 120 of Germany (BBC AEG and Siemens) and were among the first in the world to feature three-phase asynchronous motors.
