Product Features and Details
6 Pin 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 LED 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. Epoch V.
Based on: Despite all efforts to convert to more efficient usage of railcars, the DB Regio still required modern, fast acceleration electric locos for use on local servcies hauling double-deck coaches at speeds up to 160 km/h. That´s how the manufacturer Bombardier came up with a special variant of their class 145, now classisfied as class 146. The biggest differences to the 145, are the replacement Hohlwellen drive permitted for 160 km/h working instead of the original Tatzlager drive and the unmissable destination indicator in the cab window. In 2001 and 2002 a total of 31 locos were delivered to DB Regio. Two further batches followed some time later.
