E 17

Begin fifties, the DB had for passenger service 26 locomotives of class E 17. Some locomotives got as improvement of the cooling of the main transformer seven splits on each side. The E 17 110 was entirely modernized. The locomotives got on each side wider windows and the roofends were lengthened. The locomotive got also new pantographs of type DBS 54 and a series of improvements. Locomotive E 17 110 was put back in service in August 1961 from the Bw Augsburg. Due to the increasing application of locomotives E 10, the modernizing program of the E 17 was stopped. Begin sixties only the E 17 111, E 17 114, E 17 116 and the E 17 121 were partly modernized by installing new pantographs and by lengthen the roofs.

At the end of the sixties 26 locomotives were renumbered to class 117, among them were the E 17 03 upto 05, E 17 07, E 17 12 upto 14, E 17 102 upto 116, E 17 118 and the E 17 120 upto 122. The locomotives got the numbers: 117 003-005, 117 007, 117 012-014, 117 102-116, 117 118 en 117 120-122.

BR 117 110 locomotive