Product Features and Details
Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) class Ae 8/14 double electric locomotive. Fir green basic paint scheme. Version with 2 pantographs. Older design buffers with rectangular buffer plates. Locomotive road number 11801. The locomotive looks as it did after 1964.
Model: This locomotive has a digital decoder and extensive light and sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel is in each locomotive half. 2 axles powered in each locomotive half. Traction tires. The triple headlights and 1 white marker light change over with the direction of travel, will work in conventional operation, and can be controlled digitally. The white marker light can be changed to 1 red marker light when the locomotive is running "light". The headlights at Locomotive Ends 2 and 1 can be turned off separately in digital operation. When the headlights are off at both ends, the double "A" lights are on at both ends. The cab lighting for each locomotive half can be controlled separately in digital operation. Maintenance-free warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. There are mechanisms to raise and lower both pantographs; each mechanism can be controlled separately in digital operation. There are prototypical imprinted chalkboards on both ends on the end sheet metal of the frame for the buffer beams. A booklet about the history of the locomotive is included. Length over the buffers 39.1 cm / 15-3/8".
Highlights:
- Mechanisms for raising and lowering both pantographs included for the first time.
- They can be controlled digitally.
- Cab lighting in each cab can be controlled separately in digital operation.
- Digital decoder and a variety of operation and sound functions included.
