Electric locomotive E 94 282 of the German Federal Railways.The development of electric locomotives had made great technical progress in the mid-1930s. Especially with the new series E 18, E 44 and E 93 modern locomotives were available which were powerful and maintenance-free. With the stronger version of the E 93 one of the most famous locomotives of the German E-Loc history was to emerge, the E 94 was born.Due to the maximum speed of 90 km/h, the locomotive could be used much more versatile and in addition to the heavy goods train service also allowed use in express goods and passenger train service. At DB, the last German crocodiles (now: BR 194) left the planned service in June 1988.This text is machine translated.