Product Features and Details
Diesel railcar "Desiro" of the DB AG, class 642, with load-controlled digital DCC sound-decoder. Switchable on/off constant triple LED-headlights and red tail lights, coordinated with direction of travel. Otherwise as per 7420.
From 2000 onwards, the DB AG has been putting the modern and environmentally friendly diesel railcars of class 642 "Desiro" with their top speed of 120 km/h into service for regional traffic.
Important comfortable innovations of these trains are:
• 60 % low-floor section with a floor height of just 575 mm
• lighter and larger capacity interior, large window bands, vision though the whole
trains
• Disabled friendly toilet system
• Boarding assistance for wheelchair users
• Air cooling equipment
• Air-sprung bogies for optimum ride comfort
By the clever usage of mass-produced components from the bus manufacturing industry, the class 642 guarantees low-cost investment and running costs, thus making it possible to run an attractive and economic service on local branch lines and within high-density areas of population. Variations on the "Desiro" theme are running on private rail networks and on foreign rails too.
The model is fitted with a load-controlled digital sound decoder for DCC-operation according to the NMRA standard. The sounds of the original
engine is digitally reproduced inside the model, by a miniature, hi-tech loudspeaker. Realistic sounds will be automatically activated. At random, an inbuilt incidental generator releases typical sounds for the relevant vehicle. The various sounds can be called up individually by using the function keys of the TWIN-Center 6802, the TWIN-Control 6822 or the LOK-BOSS 6865.
