Product Features and Details
Prototype: railcar railcar class VT 95.9 with sidecar VB 140 of the German Federal Railroad (DB). First batch, in purple Ursprungsfarbgebung, with skylight window above the driver's cab. Surrender or operating state around 1952 / 53rd
Model: Digital decoder with extensive sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel in the motor car. 2 axles powered. Traction tires. Factory-installed interior lighting in the motor car and trailer car. Direction of travel, changing dual headlights and dual red marker lights on the truck in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. Top light on cab 2 and 1 of the motor vehicle separately digitally switched off. At the sidecar lights Two red tail lights, depending on the position of the motor car. Headlight, rear light and interior lighting with maintenance-free warm white and red light emitting diodes (LED), digital switched together. Between the vehicle units current-conducting drawbar with a guide. An additional electroless coupling rod is for use in a multi-traction. With a maximum of 4-part unit (2 double units) can each the red tail light are switched off via a switch on the sidecar. Car cabs and interiors motor car and trailer car allow a free view. Attachable brake hoses are included separately. Length of two-piece set 28.2 cm.
Highlights: Completely new tooling. With extensive operating and sound functions. Factory-installed interior lighting. The headlights on the truck each side separately digitally switched off. Red tail lights shine in the sidecar, depending on the position of the motor car. Lighting with warm white and red light emitting diodes (LED). VT 95.9 with VB 142 (Rail Bus with a sidecar). As early as the 1930s, the first rail buses out of a desire, light and undemanding vehicles using parts and assemblies out of the truck and came to develop bus manufacturing. Soon after the end of World War II recognized the Federal Railroad later that the operation was to maintain many uneconomic branch lines against the growing competition on the road only by the extensive use of such rail buses. 1949 was therefore given the wagon Uerdingen the task of developing such a vehicle. Between March and August 1950 eleven prototypes were put into operation. The relationship with coaches was unmistakable. A wheel base of 4,500 mm, slight shock buffer as well as a truck trailer hitch were characteristic features. The actuator on a wheel got a underfloor built Bussing engine with 110 hp through a manual six-speed gearbox. With the VT 95 912 (later VT 95 9112) was followed in November 1950, the last and especially trend-setting pre-production. With a special permission of the Minister of Transport of the wheel base could be extended to 6,000 mm in this railcar. Thanks to the extension of the car body is now also a sufficient space was available. After thorough testing emerged in the 1950s, a whole family of rail buses. A first series of 60 units of single-engined VT 95 from 1952 rolled out of the plant. The solid wheel base of 6,000 mm was left, but otherwise there were some changes. The front end was now embodied basket arcuately curved and equipped with domed skylights. In later series was dispensed with skylights. Three-part folding doors to the car ends made ??for a rapid passenger. In the accompanying sidecar series VB 140 (referred to until the end of 1953 as VB 142) had a retention of the short wheel base of 4,500 mm, but the shape adjusted according to the railcars. Light Scharfenberg couplers now transferred the train and impact forces. Shock spring clip served the elastic interception delicate touches by normal buffer. By 1955, the first series was followed by five more with a total of 496 rail buses, with the installation of 130 - the output could be increased continuously or later 150-hp engines. With these vehicles the DB broke up many branch lines from the steam finally, because could be maintained on many lines at all an operating only by the extremely efficient operation of rail buses. From the mid-1970s, the single-engined railcars (from 1968 series 795) dropped out in greater numbers. 1983 had the 795 445 as the last acknowledge his service. Numerous 795 found abroad and of course on museum railways in Germany a new field. The museum belongs to the fleet of the DB 795 240 (ex VT 95 9240).
