The Chinese corporation Huawei has ordered 14 diesel-electric double railcars from StadlerRail for its huge new campus in Dongguan (north of Hongkong), which will have several kilometers of standard gauge track. They are to be modeled on the ABe 4/4 # 51 to 56 (Tw III) of the Rhaetian Railway, Bernina line, and the company apparently wants to bring "Swissness" to its campus...... The double railcar (205a/b, 99 85 8880 205-3) is on the Etzwilen-Singen museum railway, making test runs between Hemishofen and Ramsen. The maximum velocity is 60 km/h. One of the cars is powered by an underfloor diesel engine, the Swiss designation is Bm 4/8 # 205a/b. It takes quite a bit of imagination to describe this vehicle as similar to the ABe 4/4s of the Bernina line. The new train is standing in Hemishofen station, on the former SBB line Etzwilen-Singen (Hohentwiel), which was never electrified.
