Product Features and Details
6 Pin The Famous German Crocodile!!
Prototype: During the 1930's the development of the electric loco made several large strides, in particular, with the new classes E18, E44 and E93 modern locomotives were now available which were powerful and yet low in maintenance. The more powerful version of the E93 represents one of the most famous locos of the German electric loco history-the E94 was born. As opposed to the most famous E93 the new loco was required to produce a top speed of 90km/h at the same rate of performance. This meant an overall improvement of 30 percent increased motive power would be necessary. On the 22nd November 1937, the locomotive manufacture AEG received a development and delivery contract for the newly titled E94 loco from the Reichsbahn, to be made to fulfill the following requirements: 600 tons at 50 km/h on a 25 promille gradient, 1000 tons at 50 km/h on a 16 promille gradient and 1600 tons at 40 km/h on a 10 promille gradient and 2000 tons at 85 km/h on flat gradients. Because the E94 had a top speed of 90 km/h it had many uses. It could haul express trains, fast goods trains and heavy goods trains. In July 1988 the DB retired its last E94 and the DR retired it's last E94 in 1991. Fortunately, several examples have been preserved as museum locos and are still presently running hauling special excursions trains.
Model: Has super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Interior details in driver's cab. Sprung pantographs. Current pick-up from the rails or overhead catenary. Cast metal chassis. Motor with flywheel. With standard NEM 651 socket for installation of a decoder. Drive on 8 wheels, of which 2 are fitted with traction tyres. Triple headlights at each end, co-ordinated with the direction of travel. Automatic couplings at each end. Slot-guide mechanism at each end for true close coupling by using the PROFI-coupling 9545 (delivered with standard couplings). Standard NEM 355 coupling socket.
