Product Features and Details
Prototype: German Federal Railroad (DB) class E 50 heavy freight locomotive. The largest design of the standard design electric locomotives from the new construction program of the Fifties. Original version with double lights and rain gutters. Use: Freight and passenger trains.
Model: The locomotive has a built-in digital decoder and a sound generator for operation with DCC, Selectrix, and Selectrix 2. It also has a motor with a flywheel. 4 axles powered. Traction tires. The headlights and marker lights change over with the direction of travel. The headlights are warm white LEDs. The headlights / marker lights and the cab lighting can be controlled digitally. The locomotive has a close coupler mechanism. It also has separately applied grab irons. Different light functions can also be controlled in conventional operation by means of a new bridge plug included with the locomotive. All of the functions can also be controlled in the digital format SX2. Length over the buffers 122 mm / 4-13/16".
This model is available as item no. 12490 (analog) and as item no. 12491 (digital), with different road numbers.
Model & Prototype Information
Prototype: The Class E 50 is an electric heavy freight locomotive built for German Federal Railways between 1957 and 1973. It belongs to the Einheits-Elektrolokomotiven (standardised electric locomotives) program and was built as heavy freight hauler to be used on the increasingly electrified main lines of the DB, where they were set to replace the steam traction. In 1968 the series was redesignated as class 150 (E50). Originally the Class 150 was also suitable for passenger service, however it did not have any steam or electric heating capability for the passenger coaches. In 1957 the first locomotive, 150 001, was delivered by AEG and Krupp. Altogether 194 locomotives were ordered and delivered. To date, the Class 150's starting tractive
effort of 450 kN (100,000 lbf) remains unparalleled on German rails, in fact it was very close to the breaking force of the chain couplings used at the time of its production. Some engines were therefore fitted with automatic coupling (type unicupler AK69e) to haul heavy ore-trains. By 2004 all class 150 locomotives except 150 091 and 150 186 were scrapped.
