Product Features and Details
The Model:
Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Operational Heusinger valve gear. Brake shoes between the wheels. Cast metal chassis. Motor with flywheel. Drive on all 6 driving wheels with 2 traction tyres. Current pick-up on all wheels. Double headlights at each end. Automatic couplings at each end. Slot-guide mechanism at each end for true close coupling by using the PROFI-coupling 9545 (delivered with standard couplings). Standard NEM 355 coupling socket. Epoch III.
Based on:
The class 62 was developed for the DRG [German State Railways] by the firm of Henschel. There was a total of 15 examples constructed, of which eight were given over to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the DDR [German Democratic Republic]. Up until 1967, they were housed around several loco depots, but assembled finally in Wittenberge.
