general technical specs:

The 24 machines of the second serie, were built in Muncih next to ES 64 F4 series for Siemens Dispolok, the 189 series for Railion, and EuroRunner diesel electrics. This illustrates the fact that the Siemens product portfolio had eveolved since the production of the first batch for OSE. Electrics with the 'classic' EuroSprinter body design were no longer a part of the program. Still, the OSE demanded that the second batch had to be identical with the first one. At that moment the ES 64 U2 platform would be the most obvious platform to use for a 25 kV AC locomotive. Operating 30 similar locomotives was considered being more important than gaining profit from the technical progress made in previous the years. The similarity demand was applied very strictly, illustrated by the fact that the newest machines still carry little product shields on their carriages saying „Siemens Krauss Maffei Lokomotiven GmbH“, the company name of the manufacturer that was valid in 1997, but disappeared in 2001! Siemens had to restart the production of the older technical equipment again, including 'Verschleißpufferbohlen' and analogue instruments for the driver tables.

Finally, the only differences to the previous serie were found in the livery of 120 007-030, resulting from the introduction of a new corporate identity for OSE including a new numbering system. 120 007-030 were delivered with new blue-silver painted OSE logos.

The first machine, 120 007, was outshopped and transported to Greece in August 2004. Along the way, the machine was weighed in the workshops of Linz before continuing its journey. This procedure was repeated for the complete serie. In November 2005 the production of the serie was completed with the completion of 120 030.

In 2005, the H 561 was the first one actually carrying a new number, but curiously it got this new number only at cab end 2 (compare both pictures!). We have no sign of any other machine being renumbered until a round of main overhauls started in 2008-2009.

Main overhaul
In 2009 first pictures emerged of OSE 120 006, repainted and renumbered. As far as we know also H 561 and H 562 got this treatment (09.2009), now running as 120 001 and 002. For H 563 and H565 we can say the same, only leaving the damaged H 564 in its old livery. Note that the OSE logos are not blue and silver, but orange and grey.

At least until August 2007, 120 008 was parked outside the Siemens factories in Munich-Allach (in fact the machine was easy to recognize on Google maps for years). Since then no sign of 008, until...

In the mean time, based on searching trough various pictures, we can tell that 120 008 was already in Greece in June 2008. So now we still have to find out the whereabouts of the machine between 08.2007 and 06.2008.