Product Features and Details
Prototype: Multiple Unit 183252-6 Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR), Wheel arrangement 2'Bo'2, built starting in 1935 as SVT 137 for the German State Railroad Company (DRG), beige / red ruby version. Application: By 1975 Salon railcars of the GDR government. From 1975 as a museum vehicle for special trips.
Model: Built-in digital decoder for operation with DCC, Selectrix and Selectrix 2 Motor with integrated drive on 2 axes in the Jakob bogie, both vehicle and Jakob bogie halves connected by kinematics, therefore prototypical narrow appearance with no clear view in the straight state. Light change white / red, headlights and interior lighting with LED. Total length over the buffers 278 mm.
Highlight: interior lighting as standard
VT 137 225 DR "Hamburg Design" A revolution in the fast transport of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) led the VT 877a / b, a. As the "Flying Hamburger" lay of the 160-km / h diesel railcars for the first time on 15 May 1933 as planned, the 287 km long route Berlin - Hamburg back and needed for just two hours and 18 minutes. This corresponded to a cruising speed of 124.8 km / h Based on the experience with this railcars ordered the DRG 13 similar two-car as a design type "Hamburg" (SVT 137149-152 and 224-232). A slightly different head shape, as well as the installation of a Scharfenberg coupler formed the most striking differences to the "Ur-Hamburg". The car bodies for all vehicles emerged as an aerodynamic lightweight steel construction formers and. In the two bogies, the 302 kW Maybach diesel engines rested and the chief generators. The drive was carried out by direct current traction motors suspended in the central Jakobs truck. From 1935 these DMUs learn to fly and the DRG revolutionized with a unique network faster railcars courses its roadmap. This unfortunately only short-lasting era of the famous "Flying Trains" had begun. From Berlin and Cologne, Frankfurt / Main, Basel, Stuttgart, Munich, Breslau, and even Bytom were achieved in addition to Hamburg now. With the outbreak of war ended the express railcar traffic. After the war, the shapely high-speed railcars were scattered to the winds. Two "Hamburger" were after 1945 in the area of the later GDR. The SVT 137 226 was no longer in operation and the SVT 137 225 built the DR to February 1951/52, in a Salontriebzug to. So he stood up in October 1981 the important personalities of the East German Ministry of Transport is available. Declared as a museum vehicle then began his second career in the summer of 1985 he even was able to participate with an official "exit permit" of the GDR at the anniversary exhibition "150 years of railways in Germany" in Nuremberg. After the turn of the SVT 137 225 was once again a major investigation and has been externally restored to its original state with the elegant beige-purple original paint scheme. He is now no longer operational to admire on the museum track in Leipzig Central Station.
