Product Features and Details
Prototype: Diesel locomotive 132478-9 Deutsche Reichsbahn, CC wheel arrangement, built starting in 1974 in the USSR for the German Reichsbahn, nicknamed "Ludmilla". Operating condition by October 1989. Use: Heavy passenger and freight trains.
Model: Built-in digital decoder for operation with DCC, Selectrix and Selectrix 2 Motor with a flywheel, 4 axles powered, traction tires. Ride The triple headlights, analogue in operation, controlled digitally. Length over the buffers 126 mm. Anniversary "25 years fall of the wall".
132 series DR According to the decisions of the Seventh Party Congress of the SED of the traction change in the GDR should be significantly accelerated. To accelerate the replacement of steam locomotives, a 3,000-horsepower diesel locomotive was planned, which was based on the positive experience with the DR-V 200. Especially for the passenger service of the installation of an electric train heating was provided. A first set of six-axis Baumusterlok Soviet manufacturer, the locomotive factory "October Revolution" in Ukraine's Lugansk (from 1972: Woroschilowgrad), as V 300 001 in 1969, finished and presented them at the Leipzig Spring Fair in 1970 to the public. Since the electric train heating but was still in development, the DR could initially take only 130 and 131 series machines without this operation. Finally, the end of 1972 was also the electric train heating working order and safe to operate. In order for the delivery of the 120 km / h 132 series could begin. Between 1973 and 1982 a total of 709 units were placed in service. Your frame and the two three-axle bogies were a made ??of sheet metal and profiles welded construction. The vehicle body is composed of metal sheets and profiles with side stiffening beads and was welded to the frame. The machines were powered by a 16-cylinder, four-stroke diesel engine with supercharging and a continuous output of 2,200 kW (3,000 hp), which supplied the series six DC traction motors with the necessary drive power via a traction generator. An additional heat generator shut off the power safely to provide coaches on the heating with electricity for lighting, air conditioning and other consumers. Due to their high number had jokingly after the turn of West German railway fans, "Ludmilla" said machine soon a large proportion of the traction on non-electrified lines. A special honor was from 1 October 1989, the 132 series received. It carried from Reichenbach / Vogtland the trains with the East German embassy refugees from Prague towards the west to Hof in Bavaria. This marked one of the key sticking points of more than a month later made ??"turn" with the rapid collapse of the GDR. The dramatic slump in freight after the turn soon had a large surplus stock of DR-diesels result. So had the following years many "Ludmilla" acknowledge or have been converted to the service. Currently there are about 70 machines as class 232 of the DB Schenker Rail Germany AG in use.
