Product Features and Details
Prototype: Heavy large diesel locomotive series 230 of the German Federal Railroad (DB). Purpose locomotive V 300 in the operational state of the 1970s.
Model: 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. Cabs have interior details in relief. Close coupler mechanism. Length over the buffers 127 mm.
Highlights:
- Digital decoder for DCC
- Selectrix, and conventional operation
- Sound electronics with realistic sound effects
V 300 - a loner with 6 axes. Based on the successful V 200 of the German Federal Railways, Krauss-Maffei built three six-axle locomotives of Class ML 2200 for the Yugoslav State Railways. Probably to hope for further orders, another identical machine with the CC wheel arrangement on their own account was established as a demonstrator. The locomotive was presented and offered in an eye-catching paint work, among others, the German Federal Railroad. After several trials, the motor power of the locomotive was increased and was internally designated as ML 3000 C'C '. Only prolonged negotiations were the German Federal Railroad to move to acquire the loner and should be considered as V 300 001 in the stock. She got the elegant purple / gray painting their biaxial sisters and was mainly found in high-quality fast service. In 1968, she received the computer number 230001-0 and in her last years could use the imposing machine between Hamburg and Westerland on Sylt where she had pulled the popular car trains between Niebüll and Westerland, are observed. The 230001-0 1975 was turned off and the German Federal Railroad in 1977 she tried to sell to Italy, which did not succeed. In 1978 she returned to Germany and was eventually scrapped two years later.
A matching Eilzug can be with the car set to No. 15471 put together.
