014 - Electric Locomotive No. 17 – “The Tarrinvaar Brewery”
Built: 1959
Class/serial no.: Voltaa/VZ673945E
Length: 19m
Weight: 95 tonnes
Power: 900kW
Max speed: 135 kph
Nmr. 17 Lokomotiv, “Tarrinvaar”, celebrates the capital city’s famous brewery. It stood in the Fabrikk district to the east of the city centre, served by the No. 9 trolleybus or “trolej” in our language. While the service was mostly used by its workers, the brewery also welcomed large numbers of visitors. Tarrinvaar prided itself on its efficiency, demonstrating on numerous occasions an ability to organise an opp-pizz in a piivuuvaar. And more than once, a spectacularly inebriated visitor misplaced his footsteps, failing to board the trolleybus home, falling underneath it instead. Could this be the origin of your verb to be “trolleyed”? Unlucky for some, then…
