Product Features and Details
Model Details:
- Original colour replication: roof aluminium-white, body red, frame black
- Finest metal spoked wheels
- Metal reversing gear
- Drive to two axles
- With interior lighting
- Fine rivets
- Short coupling kinematics
- Finely detailed bogies
- True-to epoch lighting
- Extra mounted and free-standing metal handrails and steps
- Prepared for sound or with built-in sound
- Metal drive unit
- Multipart interior fittings
- Illuminated driver´s cab and front light switchable
- In-plane assembled windows
Prototype: The six VT 137 002, 005, 006, 007, 012 and 013 units from the first delivery series that were all repaired stood on DR territory. The VT 137 122 and 132 from the more powerful motorised series also re-entered the inventory but the damaged VT 137 044 was rejected. The situation was similar with regard to the trailer cars. 16 vehicles from both ranges were in service there. The railcars that remained with DR continued to travel from Zittau in Upper Lusatia until the start of the 1960s. Ultimately, the increasingly absent spare parts lead to discontinuation. The last VT 62 quit service in Braunschweig at the end of the 1950s. The trailer cars remained in service with diesel locomotives up until the 1980s. The final combination with a BR 110 locomotive was in operation in the Jerichower network in 1985.
