Product Features and Details
Prototype: BR 216 in traffic red design of Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG). BB wheel arrangement, built starting in 1964. Use: Passenger and freight trains.
Model: With digital connector, 5-pole motor. 4 axles powered, traction tires. Length over buffers 100 mm.
Highlight: Economy model of the new Hobby selection
The looming end of steam traction, as well as higher transport services led the DB at the end of the 1950s to give a multi purpose locomotive of medium-power (1,900 HP) in order in its advanced programme of types of. Have been specified as design features: a single-engine, four-axle bogie locomotive with diesel-hydraulic transmission, a top speed of at least 120 km/h, as well as sufficient train heating for a train with 10 cars. The trial operation with the ten prototypes showed that different components such as the drive shafts were been dimensioned too weak. This could be improved in the construction of the series locomotives delivered from 1964 with reinforced parts. In addition, was cost-saving acquired the drawings easier front front of the V 160 010 and waived on welded steel lightweight construction. Between the two sound-proofed cabs was the engine compartment with propulsion system, cooler group and oil-fired forced flow boilers for train heating. He was accessible via a corridor. Power transmission was through a Voith fluid transmission that had to be redeveloped for engines of this class. As supplied the series, also a heavier 1,900 HP engine came to the installation, increased the weight of the locomotives around three tonnes. With a wheel load of 20 tons a usage of the V 160 on branch lines was virtually impossible question. 100 available was enough for this but in the meantime V, this was not problematic. Until 1969 were overall 214 series engines of class V 160 (from 1968: BR 216) of the firms Krupp, Henschel, Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD), Krauss-Maffei and Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK) delivered, of which received half of multiple-unit operation. In the course of time, improvements to control noise were carried out by isolation of the cabs, elastic bearing of the motor and mounting more effective silencer. The series class of 216 locomotives took their leave in February 2004 with the withdrawal of the last five machines. Seven machines were 226 Scharfenberg couplers and yet a reprieve as ICE towing locomotives as DRG class. In addition the steam generators for train heating were replaced by Webasto parking heaters and appropriate counterweights. The last two this so modified locomotives acknowledged the service in July 2005. Some 216er began a second career in railways or construction companies (primarily in Italy).
