Railroad bus
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thumb|The rail-road omnibus in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum thumb|The museum vehicle on the road thumb|Schi-Stra-Bus The Schienen-Straßen-Omnibus ( from German), also known as the "Schi-Stra-Bus", was a railroad bus for passenger traffic on railway lines and roads. The Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) used it both as a railbus and as a bus in Germany.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rolling stock class
- Subclass of
- dual-mode vehicle
- Operator
- Deutsche Bundesbahn
- Mass
- 13.5
- Image
- Schienen-Straßen-Bus-Bochum-Dahlhausen-280407.JPG
- Height
- 3250
- Length
- 12550
- Speed
- 120
- Has use
- passenger transport
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- Commons category
- Schienen-Straßen-Omnibus
- different from
- rail replacement bus service
- quantity
- 50
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- maximum capacity
- 67
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Description
- Procurement
- Use
- Passau–Wegscheid
- Passau–Cham
- Augsburg–Füssen
- Koblenz–Betzdorf
- Wutach Valley Railway
- Further missions
- Remaining vehicle
- Other
- Vehicles similar to the railroad bus
- France
- Japan
- Experimental phase on Hokkaido
- Commercial operation on Shikoku
- United States
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|The rail-road omnibus in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum thumb|The museum vehicle on the road thumb|Schi-Stra-Bus The Schienen-Straßen-Omnibus ( from German), also known as the "Schi-Stra-Bus", was a railroad bus for passenger traffic on railway lines and roads. The Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) used it both as a railbus and as a bus in Germany.
== Description == The Schi-Stra-Bus is similar to a railbus; it is a special omnibus with all the equipment necessary for road traffic. The Schi-Stra-Bus was equipped with a diesel engine from Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz with an output of , enabling speeds of up to on the road and on rails. The vehicles had 43 seats and 15 to 24 standing places.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Railroad bus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.