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by noipv4 3806 days ago
Swiss innovate a lot in locomotive tech. (ABB and Stadler are 2 big companies that do a lot of electric loco R&D) The TILO (Ticino Lombardia) Swiss trains (S10, Stadler FLIRT) can run on both 15kv AC (Swiss) or 3kv DC (Italy) power systems when they cross the borders. No de-boarding and re-boarding to a different train is required. http://www.tilo.ch/en/Azienda/Treni.html