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WAB He 2/2 51–58

The He 2/2 51 to 58 of the Wengernalp Railway, abbreviated WAB, are electric rack railway locomotive for 1500 volt direct current and a track gauge of 800 mm. They were built in 1909 and 1910 on the occasion of the electrification of the railway lines Lauterbrunnen–Wengernalp–Kleine Scheidegg as well as Grindelwald–Grindelwald Grund–Kleine Scheidegg and served as a model for the largely identical locomotives that were subsequently procured He 2/2 59 to 63.

The machines with two running axles and two drive rack gears are pure rack railway locomotives. The two drive gears, for the Riggenbach-Pauli and Von Roll rack system, are not mounted on the running axles, but directly next to the running axles towards the center of the vehicle. The mechanical part comes from the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, abbreviated SLM, in Winterthur, the locomotives received the electrical equipment through the Elektrizitätsgesellschaft Alioth, abbreviated EGA, colloquial Alioth, in Münchenstein. For the descent, the locomotives have a self-excited electric rheostatic braking as an inertia brake, with which it is possible to make the descent with the pantograph lowered.