Manufacture
All TRAXX locomotives are assembled and tested at Bombardier's plant in Kassel Germany, except the DC only versions which are assembled at Vado Ligure and some RENFE Class 253, which have been assembled by RENFE in its shop in Villaverde (Madrid).
The individual components are sourced from a variety of sites:
- Traction and auxiliary converters (inverters): Bombardier, Mannheim, Trapaga Spain
- Bogies: Bombardier, Siegen
- Driver desks: Bombardier Hennigsdorf, Bombardier Kassel
- Locomotive bodies and frames: Bombardier, Wroclaw (Poland)
- Cooling components: Behr GmbH & Co., Stuttgart
- Brakes: Knorr, Munich
- Transformer: ABB Sécheron, Geneva (Switzerland)
- Climate control systems (heating, humidity, etc.): Liebherr in Korneburg (Austria)
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