Product Features and Details
Prototype: Prototype: Freight Train of the 60s consisting of Series E 40 freight locomotive in chromium oxide green paint scheme, with continuous rain gutter, Schweiger vents with horizontal slats and 3 headlamps. Pressure gas tank car, oil tank car, container transport cars and flat cars, the German Federal Railroad (DB).
Model: The locomotive has an mfx digital decoder, DCC and sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion. Traction tires. 3-light headlights change over with the direction of travel. NEM coupler pockets. Total length over the buffers 74.8 cm. Contents: 12 62130 curved track, straight track 6 62188, 6 straight track 62172nd Trix Mobile Station 66950, Track connector and switching power supply 36 VA.
E 40 - backbone of the freight train promotion. The BR E 40/140 is taken from the new procurement program of the 1950s. Technically, the class E 40 is a modified for freight service class E 10.1. It has the same locomotive body, but almost the same mechanics and electronics differs in some features of their faster sisters. The BR E 40 has no electric brake, a different gear ratio, thus a lower top speed and another skylight with less fan grids. For painting the locomotive the classic chromium dioxide-green was chosen the elegant blue was only express locomotives reserved. The BR E 40, ranked in 1968 as BR 140, was designed for medium-heavy freight service, but they migrated to other services, especially when the maximum speed of 100 km / h to 110 km / h was increased. They are therefore also found pieces of silver before and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the S-Bahn service. The main task remained to this day the freight service. Like all other locomotives BR E underwent 40/140 modernization measures, rather than by different color schemes, the appearance of the locomotives changed noticeably. 31 locomotives of the E 40 series have been specially equipped for use on steep grades, as the Höllentalbahn with a DC resistance brake. They were classified as class E 40.11, from 1968 as a BR 139. Later, the remaining locomotives of the BR were contracted 139 in Munich, where they were up to the Brenner Pass, also together with locomotives of the BR 140, in use. The E 40/140 series, with its sub-variants are the most widely produced variant of the unit locomotive program of the new German Federal Railroad. 879 copies were decades mainly responsible for the medium-heavy freight service, but their phasing is in sight except for a few locomotives or already completed.
