Product Features and Details
The Model:
Super-detailling, -livery and -lettering. Inset windows. Interior details showing the driver's cab. Loco driver figure in cab 1. Sprung pantographs. Choice of pick-up from the rails or overhead catenary. Motor with 2 flywheels. With standard NEM 652 socket for installation of a decoder. Cast metal chassis. Drive on all 8 wheels, of which 2 have traction tyres. Triple headlights at each end, co-ordinated with direction of travel, white forward and red at rear. Slot-guide mechanism at each end and automatic PROFI-couplings with pre-uncoupling for true close coupling. Standard NEM 362 coupling socket. Epoch V.
Based on:
The Class 101 of the new German Railways, fitted out with the latest technology, is the successor to the well-known Class 103, whose technology is out of date. The asynchronous motors, with individual axle drive, create a continuous power rating of 6,400 kW and develop an acceleration rate of 300 kN. Besides having a very effective electrical braking system, the 84 ton 101 also employs interior air-ventilated disc brakes, so that she can safely be brought to a halt from her top speed of 220 km/h. All operations are watched over by an intelligent self-diagnosis system.
