| AEG and ABB-Henschel are the two major companies that lay the basis for all modern locomotive products produced by Bombardier. In the nineties they bundled their competences under the direction of Daimler and formed Adtranz. Later on Daimler sold Adtranz to Bombardier from Canada, giving it the current name. AEG had developed the 12X prototype to show its future vision on modern electric locomotives. The 12X can be seen as the predecessor of the German 145 series, the basis for the TRAXX platform, and was outshopped 30.06.1994. 12X had the German 128 classification with unit 001 number. |