Product Features and Details
Model Details:
- Detailed, three-dimensional suspension
- Finest paintwork
- Free-standing handrails, pantographs, roof lines and lights
- Pantograph: electric fully functional, with switch
- Pass assembled windows
- Prototypical roof equipment, color-matching
- Two engines
- Sound Decoder
The German Reichsbahn required the mid 20's a quick and locate attractive electric locomotive for the transport of coal to Berlin. With its freight trains were to be transported to 2,200 t load and passenger trains up to a speed of 65 km / h. After various conventional designs with pinion drives the decision to build the new locomotive with single-axis drive fell. The required pulling force caused at least six driven axles, the planned speed of the then state of the art in addition leading axles. The end of 1927 the first of the six locomotives was supplied by AEG. The others followed until the middle of 1928. The machines were designed as a double locomotives, with two nearly identical Lokhälften. They had a capacity of 2,418 kW. With a length of 20.9 m and a service weight of 138.5 t still are today the largest and heaviest German electric locomotives.
