Product Features and Details
The Model:
Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Cast metal chassis. Motor with flywheel. Drive on 4 wheels. Triple headlights and red tail lights co-ordinated with direction of travel. With interior lighting. Close-coupling mechanisms at each end in conjunction with the rigid coupling bar of the accompanying trailer coach 7401, or by using PROFI-couplings. Epoch III.
Based on: As "saviour of the branch line", the little red railbusses appeared on the scene in the 50's. The prototype of the FLEISCHMANN model is the single engined railbus VT 95 with accompanying trailer coach VB 142, which is a little shorter than the motor coach. All the characteristic details of quarter light windows, steel springs as buffers and simplified Scharfenberg coupling are reproduced. One VT 95 is still in use by the DB as a museum piece. Because the trailer coach was not fitted out with a driving cab, the railbus ran not as a permanently coupled push-pull unit, but always with the motor coach in front. The motor coach had to be run round at the destination station. If this operation is to be repeated in model form, then the vehicles of the railbus can be coupled together using the PROFI-coupling 9545 instead of the standard coupling bar. However, to do so, the Scharfenberg couplings with a small part of the front will need to be pulled off.
