Product Features and Details
Prototype: multi-purpose locomotive series 200.1 V of the German Federal Railroad (DB). Built starting in 1962. Diesel-hydraulic drive with 2 V12 engines. Application: Medium and heavy passenger and freight trains. Original version of the later series 221
Model: frame and body made ??of diecast metal. Built-in digital decoder and a sound generator for operation with DCC, Selectrix and Selectrix 2 Motor with a flywheel, 4 axles powered, traction tires. The headlights and marker lights with the direction of travel, with warm white LED cab lighting can be controlled digitally. Close coupler mechanism. Separately applied handrails. Length over the buffers 115 mm.
Highlights: Completely new tooling. Lighting with warm white LEDs. Cab lighting. Digital sound with many features. One-time series for Trix Club members. 's success, the V 200.0 Following was added at Krauss-Maffei 1960, the construction of the series V 200.1 in order. Also provided for the heavy passenger and freight service, the already proven design principles of the V 200.0 should be used, but with an increased power output of 1986 kW now (2,700 hp). On 27 November 1962 was the first start-up and from the summer of 1963 ran the first 20 machines of the series V 200.1 on the route from Lindau to Munich. All 50 locomotives were delivered until 1965. In 1968, the class V 200.1 the new label 221 Over time, transformed the range of use; were the locomotives initially in the rapid rail road, they came gradually to the strings against heavy freight trains to the north and west of Germany.
