Product Features and Details
Particulars of this version:
Diesel Locomotive V 60 in purple red and black livery with ivory pin stripping. 3 DB lights changing with direction. White painted ring on buffers. District Region: Hamburg, Depot: Hamburg-Altona
The locomotive is also available with fine scale wheels and digitally controlled couplers for an additional charge, please call to discuss.
Prototype:
The German Federal Railroad had, after its founding, a lack of small shunting locomotives . Therefore, "The most famous" Diesel Shunting locomotive of the DB was developed. In 1951almost all major locomotive builders were involved in the construction and development of this locomotive. Over 1000 pieces of the V 60 were built in a period of nine years. 942 locomotives were sold to the German Federal Railways , the rest went to other European railway companies. The V 60 has a top speed of 60 km/h and was able to pull transfer trains in addition to shunting. The frame is completely welded. To achieve more friction weight, reinforced side frames and cover plates were installed in some locomotives. The frame is supported by leaf springs over the axles. The wheelbase of the two outer axles is 4.3 m, so the middle axle has a play of 30 mm to improve negotiating tight curves. There is also a mechanical wheel flange lubrication device of the type De Limon installed. The three axles are powered by a Voith Turbo transmission which drives the jackshaft and coupling rods of the locomotive, which gives it the striking appearance . In the 1980s they were reclassified by the DB as a small locomotive and named as series 360-365 . The V60 is indispensable from the rail service. After almost 50 years of service of nearly all the machines it shows that it wa a really successful design for the V 60 . According to the vehicle inventory of Summer 2012 there are still 405 machines in the stock of the DB, private operators or museum railways.
Model:
Classic Edition Model mostly made from die-cast zinc and brass with Bühler motor, ESU LokSound XL 4.0 with realistic KM1 HQ sound and full range speaker. It has the latest Dynamic Smoke generator with about 40 minutes of run time per filling. Locomotive comes with cab light and headlights which changes with direction. The shunting lights are switchable. All lights are warm white LEDs. Locomotive has a robust Cardan drive shaft with ball bearing gear box. The axles are spring loaded and also with ball bearings. The power pick-ups are low noise and low maintenance off the axle bearings. It has prototypically elliptically profiled wheels, spring-loaded buffers, movable cab doors, detailed and multicolored laid out cab, grated fan grills, screw couplings interchangeable with KM1 double hook couplers or knuckle couplers. Digitally controlled couplers can be ordered with locomotive. Oviously the painting and lettering is prototypical. The locomotive works on a minimum radius of 1020mm, it has an overall length of approximately 326 mm and weighs 3.5 kg. A special locomotive engineer figure is included..
The company reserves the right to make technical, aestical and detail changes.
